Paediatric Critical Care PGCert

Programme at a Glance

The course will focus on the following:

• Review of paediatric differences
• Physiology and pathophysiology
• Paediatric clinical assessment
• Diagnostics
• Using established recognition and response systems – track & trigger
• Recognising clinical deterioration and escalating care
• Responding to clinical deterioration

• Communication skills, using SBAR effectively
• High dependency care/ critical care
• Stabilising a child for transfer
• Interactive scenario based learning activities
• Accountability, legal and ethical issues in relation to professional boundaries and clinical competencies and Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) working.
• Critical appraisal of research and evidence relating to the critically ill child