High Dependency and Critical Care Education Report - Page 3
High Dependency and Critical Care Education Report - Page 3
Project Support
Yvonne Nicolson was appointed in November 2017 to support the project lead in developing an adapted foundation programme in High Dependency and Critical Care Education for Remote, Rural and Islands Nursing Teams in the Rural General Hospital setting:
Yvonne has a background in remote and rural acute care with specialist interest in critical care. She has previous experience and project work, leading review and development of critical care educational requirements of nurses working remotely within an RGH setting. She developed and facilitated the NHS Shetland Critical Care Course including off- island clinical placements.
Her main role has been:
- the formation and co-ordination of an advisory board group to monitor progress and delivery of this collaborative programme and to ensure it is inclusive of the needs of remote, rural and Island NHS Boards
- to support the collaboration with Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) & NHS Lothian to enable the adaptation of an existing academically accredited critical care educational programme
The educational programme adaptation will include consideration of relevant supervision, clinical placement and assessment needs.
It is anticipated this education will contribute to:
- improved staff confidence and competence in managing patients with critical illness
- improved patient care and enhanced efficiency
- enhanced stabilisation and management of patients prior to retrieval
The agreed programme
After further discussions it was agreed that NHS Lothian and Edinburgh Napier University Critical Care foundation programme would be adapted to make it relevant and applicable to staff working in remote general hospital settings. This refers to module 1, module 2 is a new module specifically being developed for this staff group.
The academic pre-requisite requirements will be specific to that educational institution, with the expectation of variable academic access routes and accreditation of prior learning. However, the use of technology-enabled learning, the digital skills required by the learner to engage with an at-distance programme and the support that may need to be delivered by the home NHS Board must be included.
