Objectives
To equip nurses with the essential knowledte, skills and experience to provide safe, holistic and quality care to patients requiring emergency, critical care and/or burns management during national mass casualty incidents.

Content

• Emergency Nursing Module:
  • Overview of triage
  • Roles of Traige Nurse
  • Triage guidelines on trauma patients
  • Nursing skills on triage of trauma and non-triage patients
  • Chain os Survival - management of cardiac emergencies
  • Airway and Circulatory Management
  • Organisation of resuscitation
  • Paediatric resuscitation
• Critical Care Nursing Module:
  • Nursing management of patient with acute respiratory failure, myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock
  • Therapeutic modalities in treatment of patients with acute respiratory and cardiovasuclar dysfunction
  • Nursing management of patients with mechanical ventilation and suctioning
• Burns Nursing Module
  • Nursing management of patient with burns
  • Roles and responsibilities in burns mass disaster
  • Infection control in ICU and burns centre

For Whom
Registered nurses

Duration
14 days

Training Dates/Period

• April 2005
• June 2005
• September 2005
• November 2005

Number of Participants Per Intake
35

Fee
$1,400 per pax (inclusive of GST)

Enquiries/Registration