DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADVANCING RESPIRATORY COURSE WITHIN THE
PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE ENVIRONMENT
Barrett GC
Senior Lecturer, Division of Children's Nursing, Faculty of Health,
South Bank University, London SE1 0AA
Background
With the development of expanding and extending
practice within the intensive care environment the Hospital for Children in
conjunction with South Bank University development educational programmes
at first degree and masters degree level for experience paediatric
intensive care nurses working in the Cardiac, Paediatric and Neonatal
Intensive Care Units.
Aim of the Programme
The purpose of
developing this programme was to facilitate advancing practise for nurses
to provide holistic care when, and as needed to children by the nurse in
the clinical environment.
Following extensive consultation the two-unit course
was established with the support of the medical and senior nursing teams to
provide this clinically based course, supported with appropriate theory to
senior clinical staff at the hospital working in the intensive care
environments.
This presentation
reviews the trials and tribulations of establishing such a course, its
management, process of assessment and adaptations following implementation.
It is presented in
conjunction with the evaluation of the course Qualitative Evaluation of the
Advanced respiratory modules impact on Nursing Practice in a Paediatric
Critical Care Environment: A Thematic Analysis.