AI & Soft Skills in the workplace

Overview

This course is designed to provide nurses with essential skills relating to the assessment and management of patients who are classified as being highly dependent.

AUdience

RNs currently working on general wards requiring upskilling to enable them to work in HDU or Critical Care area.

Units

• Cardiac - Electrocardiography
  • Fundamental electrocardiography
  • Getting the most from Your Cardiac Monitoring System
• Cardiac - Physiology
  • Innervation of the Myocardium & Intro to Adrenergic receptors
  • Regulation of Cardiac Output and Blood Pressure
• Cardiac - Shock States
  
  • Introduction
  • Hypovolaemic
  • Cardiogenic
  • Septic Shock
• Cardiac - Arrhythmias
  • An Introduction to Cardiac Arrhythmias
  • Arrhythmias Originating in the Atria
  • Arrhythmias Originating in the AV Junction
  • Arrhythmias Originating in the Ventricles
• Cardiac - Acute Coronary Syndromes
  • Pathophysiology of Myocardial Ischaemia
  • Chest Pain Assessment - History, Physical examination, ECG
  • Differential Diagnosis of Chest Pain - Angina Pectoris, Acute Myocardial Infarction
  • Management of Ischaemic Chest Pain
• Fluid & Electrolyte Imbalances
  • Distribution of fluids and electrolytes in the body
  • Fluid and Electrolyte Imbalances
  • Intravenous Solutions & Their Usage
• The Infected Patient
  • The Infected Patient – Recognising the Signs & Symptoms of Sepsis
• Monitoring
  • Pulse oximetry
  • Care of the Patient with a Central Line
  • Care of the Patient with an Arterial Line
  • Interpreting common blood tests: what do they measure & if abnormal, why?
• Respiratory - assessment and management
  • Regulation of respiration
  • Lung volumes and capacities
  • Respiratory assessment including Lung Sounds
  • Oxygen Therapy, and Humidification – Getting it Right
  • Essential Respiratory Physiology: O2 delivery & metabolism, physiology of O2 saturation. CO2 production & elimination
  • Assessment & Management of the Patient with Respiratory Problems including Hypoxaemia & Hypercarbia
  • Acute Pulmonary Oedema, Pathogenesis & Management including the use of CPAP & BiPAP.
  • High Flow Humidified Nasal Oxygenation
  • Blood Gas Interpretation Made Easy