Nurses Certificate in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing
NCert (E&CC)
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
Status |
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provisional (date may change)** | 20 Dec 2019 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | TBC |
| Provisional (date may change)** | 17 Jan 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Sheffield | TBC |
| * Dates available on first come first served basis. Please note we advise all delegates not to book time off work / make travel arrangements until their dates have been confirmed with the Programme tutor. This will only happen once your place on the course has been confirmed. | |||
| ** Provisional Dates may be subject to change | |||
Triage, Monitoring & Stabilisation
Module Information
Course content:
- Triage
- Monitoring Clinical Parameters
- Dyspnoeic patients/oxygen supplementation
- Acid-base and blood gases
Status |
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provisional (date may change)** | 19 Dec 2019 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | TBC |
| Provisional (date may change)** | 16 Jan 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Sheffield | TBC |
| * Dates available on first come first served basis. Please note we advise all delegates not to book time off work / make travel arrangements until their dates have been confirmed with the Programme tutor. This will only happen once your place on the course has been confirmed. | |||
| ** Provisional Dates may be subject to change | |||
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
Status |
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Available* | 30 Jan 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Paul Aldridge |
| Available* | 19 Mar 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Sheffield | Paul Aldridge |
| * Dates available on first come first served basis. Please note we advise all delegates not to book time off work / make travel arrangements until their dates have been confirmed with the Programme tutor. This will only happen once your place on the course has been confirmed. | |||
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
Status |
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Available* | 31 Jan 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Paul Aldridge |
| Available* | 20 Mar 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Sheffield | Paul Aldridge |
| * Dates available on first come first served basis. Please note we advise all delegates not to book time off work / make travel arrangements until their dates have been confirmed with the Programme tutor. This will only happen once your place on the course has been confirmed. | |||
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
Status |
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provisional (date may change)** | 23 Apr 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | TBC |
| Provisional (date may change)** | 16 Jun 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Sheffield | TBC |
| * Dates available on first come first served basis. Please note we advise all delegates not to book time off work / make travel arrangements until their dates have been confirmed with the Programme tutor. This will only happen once your place on the course has been confirmed. | |||
| ** Provisional Dates may be subject to change | |||
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
Status |
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provisional (date may change)** | 24 Apr 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | TBC |
| Provisional (date may change)** | 17 Jun 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Sheffield | TBC |
| * Dates available on first come first served basis. Please note we advise all delegates not to book time off work / make travel arrangements until their dates have been confirmed with the Programme tutor. This will only happen once your place on the course has been confirmed. | |||
| ** Provisional Dates may be subject to change | |||
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
Status |
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Available* | 2 Jul 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Paul Aldridge |
| Available* | 8 Oct 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Sheffield | Paul Aldridge |
| * Dates available on first come first served basis. Please note we advise all delegates not to book time off work / make travel arrangements until their dates have been confirmed with the Programme tutor. This will only happen once your place on the course has been confirmed. | |||
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
Status |
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Available* | 3 Jul 2020 (9:00-16:30) | Swindon | Paul Aldridge |
| Available* | 9 Oct 2020 (9:00-16:30) | Sheffield | Paul Aldridge |
| * Dates available on first come first served basis. Please note we advise all delegates not to book time off work / make travel arrangements until their dates have been confirmed with the Programme tutor. This will only happen once your place on the course has been confirmed. | |||
Nurses Certificate in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing Pricing
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| Payments | Initial Payment |
Total Payable |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Payment Options | All prices exclude VAT | ||
| Deposit and Payment in Full | £2,100.00 | £295.00 | £2,395.00 |
| Full Course | £2,395.00 | £0.00 | £2,395.00 |
| Deposit and 12 Monthly Payments | £185.00 | £295.00 | £2,515.00 |
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