Courses

Nursing

Coroner’s Inquest Training Day

**Please note this course is for ESNEFT Staff Only**

Date: Wednesday 23 April 2025

Venue: Layer Suite, Colchester Jobserve Community Football Stadium

Suitable for: ESNEFT Staff

Course includes:

Reporting deaths to the Coroner
Family support
How to write a good witness statement
How to be a good witness
How an inquest can be reported in the press
A mock inquest
Past witness experience
Post-inquest support

If you require further information please email the course coordinator: Sarah.Wilby@esneft.nhs.uk

Kirsten Almond

Course Lead

Holmium Laser Enucleation Prostate (HoLEP) Training Day

Course Date: Tuesday 13 May 2025

Venue: ICENI Centre, Colchester Hospital

Suitable for: Urological Trainees & Specialist Nurses

Course Fee: £35

Course Details: This course includes perioperative aspects of HoLEP, nurses’ aspects of HoLEP, the role of the laser operator, the use of the Homium laser and nursing aspects of morcellation.

There are three simulated scenarios:

Theatre staff, equipment and fluid balance
Laser demonstration and safety aspects in theatre
Morcellation

In collaboration with Olympus.

Mr Zafar Maan

Consultant Urologist

Introduction to Assisting in Robotics Surgery

Aimed at SCP’s, First Assistants & Senior Scrub Nurses

This course has been accredited 12 CPD Points by the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Course Dates: Monday 9 & Tuesday 10 June 2025

Course Fee: £300

Course Duration: 2 Days

Day 1: Observation in theatres

Day 2: Hands-on practice & lectures

Overview of Xi Robot
Understanding the importance of port placement
Docking & undocking the robot with hands on practice
The importance of Human Factors & good communication in robotics theatre
Trouble shooting when supporting a robotics procedure

Therapeutic Hysteroscopy Course

Course Dates: Wednesday 29 January 2025

**This Course is Fully Booked**

Venue: ICENI centre, Colchester Hospital

Suitable for: Gynae trainees, SAS Doctors, Clinical fellows and Nurse Hysteroscopists

Course Fee:

£100 (Reduced rate is available for ESNEFT staff & Eastern Deanery Trainees)

£25 Nurse Hysteroscopists

Course Content:

The course provides a foundation for clinicians providing care in hysteroscopy clinics at our world-class minimal access simulation Centre in Colchester.

The course includes experience-enlightening lectures & priceless hands-on experience in hysteroscopy techniques.

It also includes paracervical, intracervical and fundal blocks, Myosure morcellation of polyps & fibroids, Novosure endometrial ablation, Sonata radiofrequency ablation of fibroids and a review of the recent advances in the management of uterine fibroids

Nurses Essential Surgical & Laparoscopic Skills Course

Date: 2024-25 Dates TBC

Course Fee: Free for ESNEFT staff

Introduction for Nursing staff into basic surgical & laparoscopic skills including:

Different methods of suturing including interrupted; continuous; mattress; subcuticular & the knotted suture loop
General principles and methods of knot tying
Local anaesthetic infiltration
Laparoscopic skills

To register your interest please email James.Gentry@esneft.nhs.uk

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Mr Adam Howard