Nurses Certificate in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing

Course content:

• Triage
• Monitoring Clinical Parameters
• Dyspnoeic patients/oxygen supplementation
• Acid-base and blood gases

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

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

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

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

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

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

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