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This lunchtime talk will be delivered by Hannah Turner from Tallaght University Hospital.
Please note if you cannot attend on the day, all registrants will be sent the webinar recording.
This webinar is funded by the National HSCP office and is open to all Radiation Therapists working in HSE departments. This webinar is recorded and available to all registrants post-event. If you have any registration issues please email iirrtcpdofficer@gmail.com
This event aims to improve your awareness of the late consequences of Radiotherapy and how they impact on a person's physical, social, psychological, and sexual quality of life.
After refreshing your understanding of key principles (covered in any previous events or through experience) we focus on a range of specific issues e.g., fatigue, sexual, urinary & bowel, skin, and oral care; and explore information and advice that can be provided to your patients, to help them self-manage their health and wellbeing.
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This webinar is funded by the National HSCP office and is open to all Radiation Therapists working in HSE departments. This webinar is recorded and available to all registrants post-event. If you have any registration issues please email iirrtcpdofficer@gmail.com
Image Guided Radiotherapy is a rapidly evolving part of practice in Radiotherapy. Radiographers require skills of anatomical knowledge, particularly in cross sectional CT and increasingly MR imaging, skills to evaluate verification images and be able to make decisions on proceeding with treatment in real time.
The relevant regional anatomy will be introduced during the CPD event through the use of 3D virtual reality demonstration and active labelling of cross-sectional images, to provide a grounding in fundamental principles of anatomy for verification imaging.
The principles and practice of image guided Radiotherapy, accuracy & reproducibility in Gynaecological Radiotherapy will be discussed. Key skills for the interpretation of imaging modalities used in planning and verification will be developed through case studies. The event is designed to develop decision making skills and evaluation of treatment margins and tolerances and developing practice including the application of adaptive planning.
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Description of event:
This webinar is funded by the National HSCP office and is open to all Radiation Therapists working in HSE departments. If you have any registration issues please email iirrtcpdofficer@gmail.com.
Advancing practice has been common practice across Radiotherapy within UK practice for several years, but not in all regional locations or themes of practice, and not always in other countries. This session will explore the development of these services to inform your personal, regional or national approaches and goals to developing roles.
Covering enhanced, advanced and consultant-level practice, we will explore what each of these levels of practice means and consider how they can impact the wider service and provide career progression opportunities for practitioners. At all levels of practice, the four pillars of practice should also be considered: Clinical, Education, Leadership and Research, we will look at examples of how the four pillars build across the levels of advancing practice and how we can develop ourselves towards our career goals.
Previously these roles were seen as a way to ‘fill’ gaps in clinical service. However, across services, advancing practice is now seen more as a valuable addition to service delivery and as a career progression opportunity rather than covering the lack of medical staffing.
To support this career progression there has been standardisation of practice across all professions working at the different levels of practice, we can share and discuss this UK approach to inform practice development, recognise the wide transferable skill set of a Radiation Therapist in advancing practice and how practitioners can provide impact on the service and use underpinning guidelines to ensure parity of level of practice across nursing, midwifery and AHPs.
Please email iirrtcpdofficier@gmail.com if you have any registration issues.
The webinar link will be sent out to the registered email addresses on Wednesday afternoon.
Please ensure it is an email address you can access from home. The email address above will not be monitored during the event.
Description of event and aims:Image Guided Radiotherapy is a rapidly evolving part of practice in Radiotherapy. Radiographers require skills of anatomical knowledge, particularly in cross sectional CT and increasingly MR imaging, skills to evaluate verification images and be able to make decisions on proceeding with treatment in real-time.
The relevant regional anatomy will be introduced using pre-event screencast materials and delivered during the CPD event through use of 3D virtual reality demonstration and active labelling of cross-sectional images, to provide a grounding in fundamental principles of anatomy for verification imaging.
The principles and practice of image guided Radiotherapy, accuracy & reproducibility in Head & Neck Radiotherapy will be discussed.
In addition to previous study days, more focus on the interpretation of imaging modalities used in planning and verification will be developed through case studies in the session.
The event is designed to develop decision-making skills and evaluation of treatment margins and tolerances and developing practice including the application of adaptive planning.
Learning Outcomes:
The 25th IIRRT National Conference will take place on Saturday 27th April 2024 at Radisson Blu Hotel and Spa, Cork.
Programme to follow.
Hotel address: Ditchley House, Castleview, Little Island, Co. Cork
Hotel Phone number: 021 429 7000