Urgent Care - Emergency Nursing: Essentials

What you will learn

Overview

Urgent Care and Emergency Care settings see patients of all ages, in an environment where clinical problems of all complexities can present to a health service. This course is designed to bridge the potential gap between commencement of employment and provision of a formal educational program to enable nurses to feel empowered and supported.

Designed For

This course is designed for nurses prior to, or who have been recently employed in an urgent care or emergency care setting and are yet to complete any specialty practice formal education. This course would also be useful as a refresher for nurses working or wishing to return to the urgent care or emergency environment.

Learning Outcomes

After completing the course, the student would be able to:

1. Implement a structured approach to the initial assessment and management of an undiagnosed urgent care patient
2. Apply new skills in ECG and ABG interpretation to identify rhythm and conduction abnormalities, and mismatch in ventilation and gas exchange
3. Use a systems-based approach to assess and manage patients with undifferentiated abdominal pain, chest pain, respiratory distress, altered conscious state, the injured patient and the paediatric patient
4. Outline contributing factors and apply a systematic approach to assessment and management of behaviours of concern
5. Apply a systematic approach to the preparation for transfer of the complex patient

• Tutorial 1: Decision-making approach to the assessment and early management of illness and injury
• Tutorial 2: Assessment and Management of Respiratory Emergencies
• Tutorial 3: Arterial Blood Gases
• Tutorial 4: Assessment and Management of Cardiac Emergencies
• Tutorial 5: Rhythm Analysis and 12-Lead ECG Interpretation
• Tutorial 6: Assessment and Management of the Altered Conscious State
• Tutorial 7: Assessment and Management of Abdominal Pain
• Tutorial 8: Principles of Trauma Management
• Tutorial 9: Assessment and Management of the Unwell Child
• Tutorial 10: Assessment and Management of Abdominal Pain
• Tutorial 11: Assessment and Management of Patients Exhibiting Behaviours of Concern/ Introduction to Triage
• Tutorial 12: Preparing for Transfer for the Complex Patient