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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application certification is a 6 weeks online course that helps the candidates understand how important it is to treat patients who are critically ill, and are suffering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Candidates with this course from FutureLearn developed by The University of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh can equip themselves with a daily practice routine that frontline covid warriors like doctors or nurses follow for treating a coronavirus patient.
COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application certification syllabus will teach the candidates how they can be able to support the organs of a patient who is critically ill, and also how they can be ventilated using certain techniques because it is the duty of clinical experts to treat patients with respect to humanity. This course belongs to the Healthcare and Medicine sector of FutureLearn.
With the COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application, candidates can discover how they can recognize, manage, and assess the deteriorating patients present in the ward. The candidates can also learn by watching videos that show how to effectively manage situations in Critical Care Nursing for COVID-19.
The Highlights
- Course on COVID-19 care
- 6 weeks of online course
- Weekly classes are conducted for 4 hours
- This course can be learnt using own effort
- Certification by FutureLearn
Programme Offerings
- 6 Weeks Course
- Online Course
- 4 Hours Weekly Sessions
- Certificate of completion
- Progress Mapping
- Global Classroom
- self paced course
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | Futurelearn |
Eligibility Criteria
Educational Qualification
With any educational backdrop, candidates are allowed to apply for this online programme.
Work Experience
Learners may have prior critical care experience or even none.
Certification Qualifying Details
Getting the COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application certification by Futurelearn is based on two criteria, one is studying the course materials, and the other is doing its related assessments.
What you will learn
Here’s everything one learn from this course:
- Personal Protective Practices are a part of taking care of COVID-19 patients, and candidates under this course can apply both the current and evolving principles.
- Critically ill patients require a lot of care and candidates can learn the application of evidence-based daily practices.
- Candidates can learn to apply evidence-based principles so that organ support can be monitored properly for COVID-19 patients.
- Candidates can demonstrate self-caring practices like being self-kindness, present, compassionate listening.
- The students can reflect on difficult elements that can be required to achieve self-awareness in a high tension environment.
Who it is for
This course has been designed to provide a refreshing perspective towards critical care knowledge and skills of newly qualified doctors or nurses who want to upskill, or for those who want to return back to acute clinical services especially during the pandemic of COVID-19. The list of participants can also include other healthcare professionals who have different clinical backgrounds.
Admission Details
The admission procedure consists of only 5 easy steps that have to be taken into account:
Step 1: Visiting the official website is the first step.
Step 2: Locating the ‘Join course for free’ button is the second step that should be done.
Step 3: Once found, the button should be clicked by the students.
Step 4: As the button is clicked, students can find the registration or login page.
Step 5: The new entrants should make accounts to get admission.
Application Details
There isn’t any application form that can be filled up by the candidates for the COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application course. But for beginning the learning process, candidates have to go ahead by making new student accounts that will grant them course access. New accounts are easily made with either Facebook or Gmail, and somehow if these accounts aren’t found then registration is possible using personal information like the participant’s age and email address
The Syllabus
Getting Started
- Introduction from Graham Nimmo
- Getting Started
- About This Resource
Deterioration in the Ward Patient
- Recognition, Assessment, and Management (RAM) of the Critically Ill Adult - Part 1
- Recognition, Assessment, and Management (RAM) of the Critically Ill Adult - Part 2
- Structured SBAR Handover
- Blood Gases
- ECG Interpretation
- Chest X-Ray Interpretation
- Prof Adam Hill: Recognition and Management of the Deteriorating Patient with COVID-19
- COVID-19 Zone ARTICLE Critical Care staff
Deterioration in the Intubated Patient
- Sudden Deterioration in the Intubated Patient
- Unintentional Extubation Action Card
- Sudden Drop in SPO2 in the Intubated Patient Action Card
- Falling and Loss of End Tidal CO2 Action Card
Tracheostomy Emergencies
- Tracheostomy Emergencies
- Emergency Management of Tracheostomy
Equipment Used in the Intubated Patient
- Capnography
- Monitoring
- Airway Trolley
WHO E-Learning Package
- ARI Critical Care Training
Resources
- COVID-19 Critical Care Leganto Resource List
- COVID-19 Critical Care Handbook
- Textbooks
Bedside Equipment
- Monitoring Systems
- Infusion Systems
- Medical Gases and Suctioning
Day-to-Day Critical Care
- Safety Brief and Night-to-Day Handover
- Daily Assessment 1
- Daily Assessment 2
- Non-COVID Daily Review Checklist
- Fluid Management
- Pain and Analgesia
- Sedat and Delirium
- NHS Lothian Induction: Securing ETT
- NHS Lothian Induction: Closed Suction via ETT
- NHS Lothian Induction: VAP Bundle, Eye and Mouth Care
- Ward Round: Presenting a Patient
- Physiother Mobilisation
- Physiotherapy: Assessment for Discharge
- Microbiology Ward Round
- Prescribing Good Practices EXERCISE WHO logo
WHO E-Learning Package
- SARI Critical Care Training
Resources
- COVID-19 Critical Care Leganto Resource List
- COVID-19 Critical Care Handbook
- Textbooks
COVID-19 Critical Illness: Clinical Overview
- Clinical Update May 2021
- Early Experience of COVID-19
- ICU Management of COVID-19 (March 2020)
- Update June 2021: Respiratory Management COVID-19
- COVID-19: A View from the Scottish Critical Care Frontline (March 2020)
- May 2021 Update from the Frontline: COVID-19 Critical Care in Scotland
- COVID-19 and Fluid Management (March 2020)
- Update June 2021: COVID-19 and Fluid Management
WHO E-Learning Package
- SARI Critical Care Training
Donning and Doffing PPE
- Donning PPE
- Doffing PPE
- When to Use a Surgical Face Mask or FFP3 Respirator
Intubation
- Intubation Guidance
Proning
- Proning Scenario
Resources
- COVID-19 Critical Care Leganto Resource List
- COVID-19 Critical Care Handbook
- Textbooks
Respiratory Failure and Ventilation
- 5.1 What is Respiratory Failure?
- Emergency Intubation
- Airway Trolley
- Emergency Intubation: Non-COVID Patient
- Ventilators
- Hamilton Ventilator Simulation
- CaStar Hood
- Troubleshooting and Making Changes to Invasive Ventilation
Shock
- Shock 1: Physiology and Pathophysiology of Shock
- Shock 2: Management
- Vasopressor Guide
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT)
- Acute Kidney Injury 1: Pathophysiology and Presentation
- Acute Kidney Injury 2: Investigations and Management
- Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT)
- Citrate and RRT
WHO E-Learning Package
- SARI Critical Care Training
Resources
- COVID-19 Critical Care Leganto Resource List
- COVID-19 Critical Care Handbook
- Textbooks
Introduction by Dorothy Armstrong
- Introduction
Caring Human Factors: Understanding and Applying
- Introduction to Caring Human Factors
- Thinking of Others
- Emotions and Thinking
- Caring Human Factors: Into Action
- Three Elements
Amygdala Hijack: Understanding Our Fear
- Amygdala Hijack Explained
- Compassion with Equanimity Meditation
- The Five Side-effects of Kindness
- Dr. Rick Hanson: Hardwiring Happiness
Meeting Emotions: Facing Our Fear
- Meeting Emotions: Sharing Our Fear
- 'Japanese Bowl' Song by Peter Mayer
- Meeting Emotions Meditation
- Meeting Emotions Podcast
- Guidelines for Self-care and Well-being
Self-compassion and Self-care
- Self-compassion: Caring for Ourselves
- Loving Kindness Meditation
- Self-compassion Break
- Three Good Things Exercise
- Soles of the Feet Exercise
- The Power of Self-compassion
- Empathy and Compassion Fatigue
- Reaching Out
Resources
- Teamwork in Healthcare
- End-of-Life Care
- ICS Wellbeing Resource Library
- Further Resources for Self-Care and Well-Being
- COVID-19 Critical Care Leganto Resource List
- COVID-19 Critical Care Handbook
- Textbook
Instructors
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Yes before anyone opts for the course he or she can check out the course steps.
5 interesting topics will be tutored during the course,
The University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh have been giving training for this programme.
Nearly 50000+ candidates have been added to the student list of the COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application programme.
Learning any tool or software isn’t a requirement of this course.
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