Course overview
This course will prepare clinicians practicing in critical care environments to assess, identify and manage those patients experiencing (or with the potential to experience) a critical physiological decline. This will include the identification of the deteriorating patient, incorporating advanced assessment skills and advanced life support skills. These specialised critical care skills will enable the clinician to participate in the holistic approach to the delivery of critical care within the framework of a multidisciplinary team.
Course learning outcomes
- Formulate and undertake a focussed and systematic advanced health assessment
- Through synthesis and analysis of the course content, identify those patients that have the potential to experience a critical physiological decline
- Appraise the findings of the systematic health assessment and interpret abnormal physiological parameters and other abnormal observations assisting in the identification of those patients experiencing a critical physiological decline.
- Develop and integrate clinical skills and academic knowledge in order to practice advanced assessment, life support and therapeutic skills
- Participate in the delivery of advanced critical care interventions within a multidisciplinary team
- Critique and discuss clinical practice in view of current evidence based guidelines and consensus statements.
- Debate the multi-disciplinary team approach to the recognition and response to the patient experiencing an acute physiological deterioration
- Engage in the delivery of high quality evidence based multidisciplinary care as either a team member or team leader.