Course
Exclusive quality-assured RCN course.
Online
Available to RCN members
Applicable for any nurse with a RCN membership
Who is this resource for?
This resource is aimed at nurses and nursing support workers across all settings and levels of practice, including students of health, social work and care professions.
Course information
Who is this programme for?
This programme is aimed at nurses across all settings and levels of practice, including students of health, social work and care professions.
What will I learn?
- concepts of critical care and the principles of critical care nursing
- understanding of the multidisciplinary team roles within critical care
- identifying and acting upon the signs of deterioration in a patient in critical care
- supporting needs of family and carers
- recognising, assessing and treating common physical and psychological symptoms in the critically ill patient
- the need for resilience in self and others and introduce areas of wellness.
How to sign up
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The programme is delivered virtually and includes:
- three half days of live virtual delivery
- three half days of pre-recorded teaching and podcasts
- wrap-around online learning; discussion forum
- one to one telephone coaching sessions
- e-portfolio and a workbook to reflect on learning and skill development
- up to three experience days to assist with project development as needed by the delegate (optional, to be organised by the participant).
The programme delivery will consider the training needs and organisational responses about the following issues:
Critical appraisal and exploration of current healthcare provision and outcomes including the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic; national policy, frameworks and guidance; considering the obstacles and barriers to healthcare equality and ‘parity of esteem’ in the local and national context
The individual practitioner’s role in addressing inequalities in access to holistic healthcare, such as the mortality gap for those with serious mental illness (SMI)
Considering organisational culture and ways of working in relation to physical and mental healthcare provision, unmet need, service gaps and opportunities for change
Opportunities to learn from each other’s experiences and discuss the areas of clinical skills overlap, including self-harm and wound care, assessment of the deteriorating patient and assessment and promotion of mental wellbeing
Exploration around the development of responsive services for current and future populations
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