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As lengths of stay reduce and routine surgery is shifted to day
surgery units The Audit commission report, Critical to Success (1999),
highlighted that wards now contain increasing numbers of very sick
patients and nursing staff are unprepared to deal with these acutely
unwell patients. In 2000 the Department of Health recommended that
all ward and department nurses should have access to competency-based
high dependency (level 2) education and training delivered within
the workplace.
By the time they reach the Foundation gateway of Band 6 all nurses
and midwives practicing at Guy’s & St Thomas’s will
be expected to have attended a 4 day Acute Care Skills Course at
Kings College London University and achieve some generic high dependency
competencies in the workplace.
This will ensure that practitioners can identify those patients
whose level of care needs to be stepped up and how to deliver interim
care in a timely fashion, so preventing delayed treatment for the
acutely unwell patient.
Acute Care Skills Programme Overview:
| Day 1 |
Day 2 |
Day 3 |
Day 4 |
| Advanced Respiratory Assessment |
Advanced Cardiovascular Assessment |
Advanced Fluid Management |
Skills Station Scenarios |
| Airway Management &Tracheostomys |
Advanced Haemodynamics |
Non-Invasive Ventilation |
Skills Station Scenarios |
Access on to this programme will be as for other study days offered
by the University.
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