Nurses Certificate in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing
NCert
Triage, Monitoring & Stabilisation
Module Information
Course content:
- Triage
- Monitoring Clinical Parameters
- Dyspnoeic patients/oxygen supplementation
- Acid-base and blood gases
Key learning objectives:
- Understand the concept of triage and the nurse’s role
- Know what signs to look for, and why they matter
- Gain an overview of common presentations and their emergency management
- Monitoring skills
- Learn how to stabilise dyspnoeic patients
- Basic understanding of blood gases and their application in respiratory emergencies
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Dec 2017 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Louise O'Dwyer|Paul Aldridge |
Fluid Therapy in the Emergency Patient
Module Information
Course content:
- Vascular Access
- Intravenous fluid therapy
- Hypovolaemia and shock
- Blood Transfusions in practice
Key learning objectives:
- Gain confidence in standard and advanced vascular access techniques
- Dehydration versus hypovolaemia – what is the difference?
- Crystalloids, colloids and beyond
- Improve your fluid therapy calculations
- Understand the practical application of blood transfusions and products
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Dec 2017 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Louise O'Dwyer|Paul Aldridge |
Medical Emergencies
Module Information
Course content:
- The cardiac patient
- Renal failure
- Endocrine emergencies
- Dealing with poisoned patients
- The parvovirus patient
Key learning objectives:
- How medical emergencies present and why
- Practical ECGs – arrhythmias and dysrhythmias – what’s the difference?
- Diagnosis and treatment of common endocrine emergencies
- The principles of managing poisoned patients
- Common poisonings; their presentation and treatment
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Feb 2018 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Paul Aldridge |
Surgical Emergency Procedures
Module Information
Course content:
- Patient preparation
- Preparation for abdominal surgery and instrumentation
- GDV
- Septic peritonitis
- Haemoabdomen
- Caesarean section
Key learning objectives:
- Learn the importance of correct asepsis when prepping patients for surgery
- Ensure an understanding of the commonly used instruments for emergency surgery
- Understand which diagnostic tests indicate emergency surgery is required
- Gain an understanding of what is required in the emergency surgical patient
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Feb 2018 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Paul Aldridge |
Analgesia and Anaesthesia
Module Information
Key learning objectives:
- Which analgesics are suitable for emergency patients and why
- Anaesthetic protocols for emergency patients
- Safe anaesthetic monitoring
- Cardiovascular and respiratory emergencies during anaesthesia
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2018 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Louise O'Dwyer |
Nursing the Critical Patient
Module Information
Course content:
- Managing recumbent patients
- Nutrition and feeding tubes
- Managing urinary catheters, chest drains, tracheostomy tubes
Key learning objectives:
- Learn nursing techniques to improve the care of recumbent patients
- The importance of early enteral nutrition and techniques which are available to achieve this
- Management of the common tubes and drains in the critical patient
- Infection control considerations for the critical patient – prevention of healthcare associated infections
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9 May 2018 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Louise O'Dwyer |
The Trauma Patient
Module Information
Course content:
- Initial management of wounds and fractures
- Urinary tract trauma and obstruction
- Head injuries
- Thoracic trauma
Key learning objectives:
- Stabilisation and initial treatment of traumatic wounds and fractures
- Effective assessment, lavage and debridement of wounds
- What’s new in wound dressings
- How urinary trauma presents and what we can do to stabilise the patient prior to surgery
- How the prognosis for head trauma can be determined by effective nursing
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Jul 2018 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Louise O'Dwyer|Paul Aldridge |
Emergency and Critical Care - Practical Day
Module Information
Advances in CPR and dry lab
Case studies- presentation, discussion, seminar and revision of the principles covered.
Delegates will have the opportunity to undertake the following practical exercises-
- Suturing & dressings
- Tracheostomy and chest drains
- Oxygen supplementation
- Vascular access- jugular, cut-downs, intraosseus – dry lab
- Feeding tubes – dry lab
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Jul 2018 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Louise O'Dwyer|Paul Aldridge |
Nurses Certificate in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing Pricing
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Payment Terms & Conditions
- A non-refundable initial payment of £150.00 is due on registration in order to secure the booking. This can be paid by credit card or bank transfer.
- The remaining amount is payable 60 days prior to the course commencing.
- Direct debit plans are administered and collected on our behalf by Animal Healthcare Limited.
- If you want to enrol for the exam there is a £250 (no VAT) payable to the European School of Veterinary Postgraduate Studies (ESVPS).
- Individual and paired module pricing does not include the exam fees payable to ESVPS.
- Please contact us for pricing relating to corporate veterinary groups and multiple booking discounts.
Registration Information
- Applications are accepted on a first-come, first served basis.
- Where all available places are full, applicants will be offered first refusal for the next available date.
- Improve International reserves the right to close the intake early if the number of applications received exceeds the number of available places.
- In order to secure a place you must pay an initial payment – details of which can be found above.
- Confirmation and enrolment details will then be sent to applicants once we have received a completed application form.
