Basics in Health and Nutrition

(1 Day – Tutor Directed Online Workshop)

Overview

In the highly competitive retail pharmacy sector a sound base of the products you sell can lead to increased sales, higher profitability and make you more competitive overall. The vitamins, minerals and supplements category can be complicated due to its diverse brands and range. Advice on the multiple applications of vitamins, minerals and supplements and how much of each we need at the various stages of life, is critical to delivering excellence in patient and customer care. This course provides information on health and nutrition, as well as an overview of how nutritional supplements can assist health and wellbeing.

It focuses on the various groups of vitamins, minerals and supplements, as well as how to engage with a customer in order to correctly establish what they require. This course aims to equip learners with the knowledge, skills and competence to appropriately engage with patients and customers and give advice on the required vitamins, minerals and supplements solutions.

Course Content

This course aims to equip learners with the knowledge, skills and competence to appropriately engage with patients and customers and give advice on the required vitamins, minerals and supplements solutions.

• Basics of Nutrition;
• Balancing Your Blood Sugars;
• Immunity and Boosting Your Immunity;
• Energy;
• Weight Loss;
• Digestive and Gut Health;
• Heart Health;
• Stress Management;
• Intolerances; and
• Customer Coaching

Course Delivery and Methodology

The course is delivered over one day via tutor directed online workshop. This highly interactive course uses tutor-led presentation and discussions, group and individual exercises, as well as case studies to reinforce learning. to reinforce learning.

There are no formal entry requirements, and this course is open and suitable for pharmacy technicians and pharmacy staff who wish to upskill or update and improve their knowledge and competence. Learners will need a computer/ laptop or a mobile device and a set of earphones/headset to attend.

Course Schedule

The spring workshop date is Monday, 23 March 2026. It runs from 10.00am – 4.00pm with a break for lunch.

Assessment

Participants who complete the course will receive an IPU Professional Academy Certificate of Completion.

Course Fee

The cost for this course is €250 for learners working for IPU Members; €550 for learners working for non-members.

How to Enrol and Pay

1. Go to www.ipu.ie.
2. In the top menu, click on “IPU Professional Academy” and then select Training Courses.
3. If you want to browse first, just click View Course to read the details.
4. From the Training Courses page, you can add courses to a shopping cart by hovering over the course you want and clicking Add to Cart. You will be able to increase the quantity at the Checkout point. You can continue adding other courses to the cart, or when you are done, click View basket on the last course you added, or, if you are viewing a course, click on the basket icon in the right-hand corner and click View Basket.
5. From here, you can increase the quantity but make sure to click Update Basket if you do so.
6. Please, make sure you click on the green button ”Members Login” and log on if you are a member, so the system will show the member price.
7. Click Proceed to Checkout when you are happy with your booking (s) and enter your billing and pharmacist details.
8. You can then scroll down to enter the student details. For example, if you are intending on booking one student on one course and then two students on to a different course, you will see three student bookings appear in the Checkout, since you are booking three slots. The name of the course (s) you have selected will appear at the top of each slot so you can enter the details of the appropriate student to the selected course. You would then repeat the same for the next two student slots.
9. After entering all the required information, enter your card details and click Place Order to pay for all of the bookings in one go. This eLearning course is available to purchase 24/7 and is placed on the IPU Professional Academy Learning Management System (LMS).