With the aging population and a higher incidence of patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes, healthcare professionals such as nurses, therapists and therapy aides are needed to have specific skills sets to manage a list of problems they may face when treating their patients in the community. Nurses, therapists and therapy aides working in the community are often called upon to manage the feet of their patients. This may include simple diabetic foot screening and toenail cutting.
This 1.5 day course will comprise of lectures, workshops with hands-on practice and a competency test.
