Fundamentals of Critical Care Nursing (FCCN)

This course is designed to build clinical competencies of nurses working in critical care units. It aims to bolster their critical thinking and clinical judgment.

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Introduction to the course

Description

This course is designed to build clinical competencies of nurses working in critical care units. It aims to bolster their critical thinking and clinical judgment and to enable them to utilize evidence based care practice following the nursing process to positively impact clinical outcomes of adult critically ill patients.

Target audience

Registered nurses currently working in adult medical/surgical intensive care units in Pakistan with a potential to impact clinical education and nursing practice in the field of critical care.

Course curriculum

1. Course Syllabus
1. Live session - Jan 9th 2021
2. Live session - Jan 16th 2021
3. Live session - Jan 23rd 2021
4. Live session - Jan 30th 2021
5. Live session - Jan 31th 2021
6. Live session - Feb 6th 2021
7. Live session - Feb 13th 2021
8. Live session - Feb 20th 2021
9. Live session - March 6th 2021
10. Live session - March 20th 2021
11. Live session - March 28th 2021
12. Live session - April 10th 2021
13. Live Session-April 17th 2021
14. Live Session-April 24th 2021
15. Live Session-May 23rd 2021
16. Live Session-June 12th 2021
17. Live Session-June 19th 2021
18. Live Session-June 26th 2021
19. Live Session-July 10th 2021
20. Live sessions - July 17th 2021
21. Live sessions - July 31th 2021
22. Live Session - Aug 7th 2021
23. Live Session - Aug 11th 2021
24. Live Session - Aug 16th 2021
25. Live Session - Aug 21st 2021
26. Live Session - Aug 28th 2021
27. Live Session - Sep 5th 2021
28. Live Session - Sep 8th 2021
29. Live Session - Sep 11th 2021
1. Module 1 Objectives and Topics
2. Pretest - Module 1
3. Prevention of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) in Critical Care.pdf
4. Human Factors
5. Required Reading: Multidrug-Resistant Organism & Clostridioides difficile Infection (MDRO/CDI)
6. Required Reading: GUIDELINE FOR PREVENTION OF CATHETER-ASSOCIATED URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS
7. Required Reading: Strategies to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Acute Care Hospitals
8. Required Reading: Checklist for Prevention of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections
9. Assignment - Patient case
10. Post test - Module 1
1. Module 2 Objectives and Topics
2. Optional reading - THE FIRST LOOK
3. Optional reading - Respiratory examination
4. Optional reading - breath sounds
5. Optional reading - abdomen
6. Optional reading - cardiovascular examination
7. Optional reading - heart sounds
8. Optional reading - neurological examination
9. Optional reading - Stanford 25
10. Optional reading - skin assessment
11. Optional reading - Learning
12. Optional reading - Assessment
13. Optional reading - HEENT EXAMINATION
14. Optional reading - General clinical Archive
15. Optional reading - SOV-10
16. Required reading - RASS
17. Optional reading - The Effect of Sedation Protocol
18. Optional reading - Validity of (RASS) in critically ill children
19. Required reading - assessing patients’ risk of pressure ulcers
20. Required reading - Risk assessment tools for the prevention of pressure ulcers (Review)
21. Required reading - ABCDE approach
22. Optional reading - Falls Risk assessment
23. optional reading - Thromboprophylaxis in Intensive Care Unit Patients
24. Optional reading - Falls Risk Assessment Tool
25. Extended Reading - News trigger thresholds
26. Reading reading - National Early Warning Score (NEWS) 2
27. Optional reading - Rescue Chemical Restraint Guideline sep2018
28. Optional reading - CLINICAL SKILLS: THE 'DR ABCDE' ASSESSMENT
29. Optional reading - Lightning Learning: SBAR
30. Optional reading - GUIDELINES FOR THE PROVISION OF INTENSIVE CARE SERVICES
31. Optional reading - VTE risk assessment & thrombophylaxis in Maternity 6.1
32. Optional reading - Risk assessment foR Venous thRomboembolism
33. Optional reading - Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management
34. Optional reading - The Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT)
1. Cardiac Physiology
2. Resuscitation Council
3. Heart Failure Drugs
4. Heart Failure
5. ECG Guide
6. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) flow charts
7. Acute MI
8. Transducers
9. Setting up an arterial line
10. Looking after CVP catheters
11. Dressing and looking after a PICC line
12. AF management Algorithm
13. Drugs List
14. Extra-Out of hospital Cardiac Arrest
15. Extra-Drug monitoring and toxicity
16. Recommended Guidelines-ESC1
17. Recommended Guidelines-ESC2
18. Recommended Guidelines-ESC3
19. Recommended Guidelines-ESC4
20. Recommended Guidelines-ESC5
1. Lecture 1 - Ventilator Management
2. Lecture 2 - Acute Lung Injury
3. Lecture 3 - End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring
4. Lecture 4 - Acute Respiratory Failure
5. Lecture 5 - Noninvasive ventilation
6. Lecture 6 - TRAIN OF FOUR
7. Lecture 7 - Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
8. Reading - 1
9. Reading - 2
10. Reading - 3
11. Reading - 4
12. Reading - 5
13. Reading - 6
14. Reading - 7
15. Reading - 8
1. Detection, Prevention and Treatment of Delirium in Critically Ill Patients
2. DIAGNOSTIC/ THERAPUTIC LUMBAR PUNCTURE PROFORMA
3. Clinical Guideline for the management of inpatients with Parkinson’s disease
4. Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale
5. ITU Sedation Guidance
6. Sleep on ITU
7. Stroke- Brain and spinal injuries
8. Stroke - Brain damages
9. Stroke - Early warning signs tools
10. Stroke - EVD Lumbar-Drain
11. Stroke - Head, Spine, _ Chest Injuries
12. Stroke - Intracranial Pressure
13. Stroke - management of stroke
14. Stroke - Neuro Assessment
15. Stroke - neurogenic Shock
16. Stroke- Diagnosis And Management Of Acute Stroke
1. Arterial line-Insertion:
2. Arterial line-Waveform interpretation
3. Vasopressors
4. SHOCK
5. Practical skills - drug calculations
6. Materials:Haemodynamics
7. Monitoring cardiac output
8. Types of Shock
9. Medications
1. acute kidney injury prevention
2. Guideline For The Treatment Of Acute Kidney Injury
3. Guidelines For Drug Dosing In Renal
4. Post cardiac arrest management
5. Renal replacement therapy on the ICU
6. Renal Replacement Therapy
7. renal
1. Acute liver failure
2. Stoma Care Clinical Nursing Standards
3. Liver Failure
4. Decompensated Cirrhosis Discharge Bundle (Ascites)
5. ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit
6. British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)
7. Guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests
8. UK Guidelines for the Management of Acute Pancreatitis
9. NURSING CARE OF THE CLIENT HAVING AN ILEOSTOMY
10. LARGE VOLUME PARACENTESIS IN CIRRHOSIS: SAFETY TOOLKIT
11. Acute Liver Failure: An Update
12. Management of the patient with acute pancreatitis
13. Risk Factors for Fulminant Hepatic Failure and their relation with outcome in children
14. Safe Sedation Practice for Healthcare Procedures Standards and Guidance - October 2013
15. Cirrhosis in over 16s: Assessment and Management
16. Acute Liver Failure: indian Perspective
17. British Society of Gastroenterology
18. Guidelines on the Management of Ascites in Cirrhosis
19. A Study of Acute Liver Failure in adults in a tertiary care hospital
20. Consensus Statement on Acute Liver Failure (Part 1)
21. How to diagnose and manage hepatic encephalopathy
22. Pancreatitis - NICE guideline
23. British Society of Gastroenterology Consensus
1. Hyperthyroidism Diagnosis and Management
2. Required reading - The management of the hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state
3. Required reading - The Management of Diabetic
4. Required reading - management-of-thyrotoxicosis-during-covid-19
5. Required reading - sfe-covid-19-advice-statement-for-adrenal_pituitary-insufficient
6. Required reading - Trust Guideline for the Management of Suspected Thyroid Emergencies
7. Optional reading - Management of Subclinical Hypothyroidism
8. Optional reading - Guideline for the Management of Graves’ Hyperthyroidism
9. Optional reading - Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Adrenal Insufficiency
10. Optional reading - The Diagnosis of Cushing’s Syndrome
11. Required reading
12. Optional reading - The Management of Primary Aldosteronism
13. Optional reading - UK Guidelines for the Use of Thyroid Function Tests
14. Optional reading
1. Diagnosis and treatment of disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) according to four DIC guidelines
2. The management of abnormal haemostasis in the ICU
3. Approach to the Coagulopathic Patient in the Intensive Care Unit
4. Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Heparininduced Thrombocytopenia
5. Transfusion Reactions – Reacting at the Bedside
6. Coagulation Abnormalities in Critically Ill Patients
7. Common haemostasis issues in major bleeding and critical illness
8. Acute Transfusion Reaction Flow Chart
9. Disseminated Intravsascular Coagulation
10. Transfusion Reaction Algorithm
11. Haemostasis
1. Prevention and Management of Postpartum Haemorrhage
2. WHO recommendations on drug treatment for non-severe hypertension in pregnancy
3. Regional Guideline for the Management of PreEclampsia
4. HELLP Syndrome (infographic)
5. High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy Decision Aid
6. Hypertension in Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management
7. Magnesium Sulfate
8. MAJOR OBSTETRIC HAEMORRHAGE
9. Pregrancy Complications and Preeclampsia
10. Management of Acute Liver Failure
11. Presentation Pictures
12. WHO recommendation on Calcium supplementation before pregnancy

About this course

Free
201 lessons
50 hours of video content

Instructor(s)

Faculty Dr. Mohsin Zaman

Consultant in critical care and acute medicine. Head of dept. Of acute medicine Northampton general hospital https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohsin-zaman-5031539b

Course Director Dilshad Pirani

RN, RM, BScN, MN, MBA Faculty of Nursing University of Calgary in Qata