Chronic Condition Management Program

This short course is designed and relevant for allied health practitioners, aged care workers, nurses, GPs and Aboriginal health practitioners.

Course content

This short course introduces the structured process and set of tools underpinning the Flinders Program approach to self-management support and collaborative care planning. The program includes supervised practice of self-management assessment and care planning.

Learning outcomes

Participants should complete this program with the following capabilities including be able to:

• Demonstrate understanding of the concepts and principles of the Flinders Chronic Condition Management Program
• Identify the principles and processes of Motivational Interviewing
• Identify first steps to implement chronic condition management with self-management support

Using this knowledge, participants should have the capacity to:

• Assess a client’s self-management capacity using the Partners in Health Scale and the Cue and Response interview
• Work with a client to identify a significant problem and link mid- to long-term goals using the Problems and Goals Assessment
• Assist a client to problem solve
• Use behaviour change counselling skills to maintain a client centred focus throughout the interview
• Develop an evidence-based behavioural care plan to improve and support self-management of the client’s chronic condition(s).

Assessment

In order to receive a Certificate of Completion, participants must complete the Flinders Program training, including care planning activities, and submit the signed individual Trainee Undertaking and Personal Licence for Use of the Flinders Program. These entitle the participant to use the Flinders Program tools as part of their individual clinical practice.

CPD and Credits

CPD and Credits Attendance at this short course, where relevant to your clinical role, can be used as self-reported evidence of meeting CPD requirements of up to 16 hours.

This workshop has been endorsed by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners QI&CPD as a Category 1 activity (the equivalent of 40 points) and also by Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine as a PRPD activity (to the equivalent of 30 points).

Pathways into Flinders University Award Programs

Successful completion of this course can attract credit for assessment within the Flinders University Chronic Condition Management postgraduate programs