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Modules taken NURSE CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME
over 1 year

EMERGENCY AND

CRITICAL CARE NURSING This programme will increase your knowledge and confidence enabling
you to act swiftly and calmly resulting in a positive impact on the clinical

NCert(E&CC) outcome of your emergency patients.

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Emergency patients can be some of the most challenging and rewarding 1 Triage, monitoring 4 Surgical emergency 7 The trauma patient

patients to nurse in practice, hence knowing how to effectively triage and & stabilisation procedures
This session will deal with the care of
nurse these patients is an essential part of the patient outcome. The aim of this module is to give you Emergency patients often need the trauma patient, and will include the
increased confidence in the triage and life-saving surgical procedures carried management of wounds and fractures,
assessment of emergency patients on out once they are stabilised. This module urinary tract trauma and obstruction,
presentation to your clinics. The session will look at the commonly performed dealing with head trauma and thoracic
STARTS JANUARY 2021 will focus on how to deal with dyspnoeic emergency operations. The indications trauma patients. You will have an
patients and techniques involved for surgery will be discussed, along with improved understanding of how to
in their treatment such as oxygen your role during surgery, and the need deal with these patients and effective
supplementation, thoracocentesis and for intensive post-operative care to nursing techniques which can be used
Programme Timings: acid-base/blood gas interpretation. obtain the best outcomes. to achieve a positive outcome.
09:00 Registration
09:30 Course starts 2 P 5 8 P Practical day
17:00 Course finishes Fluid therapy in Analgesia and
the emergency patient anaesthesia
This module will give you an update
Locations: This module will give you confidence This module will look at the anaesthesia on veterinary CPR, and will include a
Alexandra House, Swindon in obtaining vascular access in critical of the critical patient, which drugs are practical dry-lab. Case studies will be
patients. The focus is on fluid therapy, useful for emergency patients and why, used to focus on topics already covered
Access Requirements: looking at the difference between and provide useful protocols to use for during the programme to ensure you
 dehydration and hypovolaemia and the these patients. Monitoring techniques have a good understanding of the
You must have been in practice best fluids to use in specific patients for patients under anaesthesia will also course content. Practical sessions will
for a minimum of one year and be with particular presentations. The be covered along with how to deal enable you to practise skills already
RCVS registered or equivalent if practical use of blood products and with cardiovascular and respiratory covered in theory, such as vascular
you’re not practising in the UK. transfusion within practice will also be emergencies. The module will also look access, feeding tube placement and
covered to give you more confidence at pain assessment and scoring systems, oxygen supplementation.
in this aspect of fluid therapy. and the types of analgesics available.
You can attend the modules if you
are a student, or not in practice and
enrolled with the RCVS; however you 3 Medical emergencies 6 Nursing the
will not be able to attain the NCert. critical patient
This module will look at the varied
CPD Hours: emergency medical presentations which Focused inpatient care is a vital aspect
6 hours per module you may encounter. Presenting signs can of veterinary nursing. This session will
be varied and confusing; the common look at useful techniques and aspects
Ellie Parry symptoms of these conditions and of nursing care when dealing with
Programme Tutor Support the techniques used to stabilise recumbent patients, which can be
RVN | Emergency and Critical Care Nursing these patients will be outlined. The difficult cases to manage. The module
use of laboratory and diagnostic will also focus on providing adequate
I thoroughly enjoyed the course and the tests and imaging will be discussed and appropriate nutrition to patients, and
practical skills of the day. The course was where appropriate. will look at how this can be performed.
very helpful with my job and found it to be
the best so far. The practical side of this Practical aspects of patient care will also
be covered including urinary catheters,
course was brilliant and I found this really chest drains and tracheostomy tube
helped my skills. maintenance and care.

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