Have you ever thought you would like to have a hand in helping to train health professionals how to handle patients? Well now’s your chance we are looking for 20 people to attend a training event for Nurses taking place on Thursday 16th June 10.30am at the Novotel hotel in Hammersmith. Full details will be sent to those who can attend. You will be helping to demonstrate how nurses should take the DAS 28. So you will be a before and after so your DAS will be taken before they are trained then after for them to understand the techniques involved etc. Expenses will be paid and lunch provided after which you will be able to leave. See below the aim of the session.

Please email me at clare@nras.org.uk by Tuesday 24th Noon if you are able and wish to take part in this great opportunity.

PLEASE ONLY RESPOND IF YOU CAN TAKE PART. ( My inbox gets full very quickly otherwise) thank youl

Aim of the training session
To support real-life training of the rheumatology nurses, we would like to invite about 20 patients with active rheumatoid arthritis to take part in one of the rheumatology workshop training sessions by volunteering to have the disease activity score (DAS28) assessment performed on them. The training is designed to find out if there is a variation in DAS28 techniques being used by different nurses and to standardise techniques and empower nurses to become ambassadors for DAS28 training in their clinics. Reasonable travel expenses covered and lunch provided.