Objectives :
- To prepare the nurses to work in the fast-paced, dynamic emergency care environment.
- To expertise the students to develop standards for emergency nursing practice in a clinical setting.
- To equip the students with advanced knowledge skills and competency required for the assessment and initial management of an emergency patient.
- To reinforce advanced knowledge and skill in disaster and trauma management
- Develop advanced knowledge and skills necessary to function competently within critical care as a professional nurse.
- To expertise in acquiring advanced knowledge and skills regarding the assessment of critically ill patients in a clinical setting.
- To equip in acquiring advanced knowledge and skills regarding Hemodynamic parameters to guide fluid therapy, advanced airway management, sedation, and pain management in ICU patients in a clinical setting.
Course content:
- Setting up of ER
- Trauma care
- Management of emergencies
- Rapid sequence intubation
- Anaphylaxis
- Snakebite
- Poisoning
- GI bleed – upper and lower
- Procedures in ED
- Triage
- Disaster Preparedness and Response
- Rapid Response Team (RRT)
- Clinical Assessment
- Setting up of ICU
- Daily Assessment of Critically Ill Patients
- Fluid management in ICU
- Airway management
- Pain & Sedation in Critically ill patients: pain assessment and management
- Sepsis
- Fluid and electrolyte imbalance
- Intra-hospital transfer of patient
- Breaking bad news
- End-of-life care
Course delivery :
- Lecture classes by experts from the respective field
- Practical training imparted in skill lab with demonstration and return demonstration (procedure checklist based)
- Case scenarios
- Role play
- Group discussions
- Workshop
- OSCE workstations
- Lecture classes by experts from respective field
- Hands on training imparted in skill lab with demonstration and return demonstration (procedure checklist based)
- Case scenarios
- Group discussions