Nurses Certificate in Emergency and Critical Care Nursing
NCert (E&CC)
Triage, Monitoring & Stabilisation
Module Information
Course content:
- Triage
- Monitoring Clinical Parameters
- Dyspnoeic patients/oxygen supplementation
- Acid-base and blood gases
Status |
When |
Where |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future dates for this course are currently being developed. | |||
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Future dates for this course are currently being developed. | |||
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fully Booked | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fully Booked | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fully Booked | 23 Apr 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Amy Homer |
| Available* | 24 Apr 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Amy Homer |
| Available* | 16 Jun 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Sheffield | Amy Homer |
| * 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. | |||
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Available* | 23 Apr 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Elle Haskey |
| Fully Booked | 24 Apr 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Swindon | Elle Haskey |
| Available* | 17 Jun 2020 (9:30-17:00) | Sheffield | Elle Haskey |
| * 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. | |||
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fully Booked | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fully Booked | 3 Jul 2020 (9:00-16:30) | Swindon | Elle Haskey|Paul Aldridge |
| Available* | 9 Oct 2020 (9:00-16:30) | Sheffield | Elle Haskey|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
Booking Options
| Payments | Initial Payment |
Total Payable |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Payment Options | All prices exclude VAT | ||
| NCert Programme | £2,395.00 | £0.00 | £2,395.00 |
| NCert Programme (Deposit and 12 Monthly Payments) | £185.00 | £295.00 | £2,515.00 |
| NCert Programme (Deposit and Payment in Full) | £2,100.00 | £295.00 | £2,395.00 |
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Start date and location
16 Jan 2020
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This course has already started but you can join part way through and finish any modules you missed during the next course.
This course has already started but you can join part way through and finish any modules you missed during the next course.
Sheffield
Module one of this programme has already started. You can book the full course now and complete the modules that have passed on next year's programme.
Start date and location
19 Dec 2019
Click here for full course schedule.
This course has already started but you can join part way through and finish any modules you missed during the next course.
This course has already started but you can join part way through and finish any modules you missed during the next course.
Swindon
Module one of this programme has already started. You can book the full course now and complete the modules that have passed on next year's programme.
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Payment Terms & Conditions
- Payments can be made by BACS, credit card or Direct Debit.
- Direct Debit plans are administered and collected on our behalf by GoCardless Limited.
- In certain circumstances, multiple booking and corporate discounts are available, please contact us on 01793 759159 for further information.
- In order to confirm your place we must receive payment in full or the relevant initial payment.
- In addition, if paying by direct debit, we must receive the completed mandate prior to course commencement.
- Paired module pricing does not include the exam fees payable to ISVPS.
- Full details regarding the course cancellation procedure can be found here: https://www.improveinternational.com/uk/terms-and-conditions/
Please note:
All NCert programme prices are based on you completing the programme in one year and include ISVPS registration and examination fees.
* If taking the paired modules, there is an additional registration and examination charge, payable to ISVPS, if you wish to eventually complete all the modules and gain the NCert. In addition, for some of the NCerts the modules must be completed in consecutive order, please see individual descriptions for details. Please speak to us for further information.
We will charge VAT by default if you are part of an EU country outside of the UK. However, if you can supply a valid intra-community VAT number the invoice will be exempt from VAT.
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