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.

 
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