Essentials of Nursing Critically Sick Children

About the course

This course aims to introduce nurses working with sick newborns to essential knowledge and skills. An assessment of clinical skills competence in the participants clinical setting is recommended.

Course Content

• An understanding of anatomical, physiological and developmental differences for different gestational age and weight of newborns, and how this impacts the response to illness and the required nature of care.
• An ability to provide safe, quality, evidence-based nursing care to sick newborns, using the Regul8 Framework as a guide.
• A recognition of the important supportive role and resource of the principal caregiver and the ability to provide care for both the newborn, their family and themselves in acute and highly stressful situations.
• An understanding of their role and the complex system and environments where newborns are nursed, to ensure safe and efficient care and the best possible hospital outcomes.

Registration

Entry Requirements: Registered Nurses (Professional and Enrolled).You must be currently, either regularly or occasionally, working with sick newborns. You may work at any level of health facility; you do not need to work in a neonatal high or intensive care or neonatal specific ward.

For more information or to register email ce.administration@uct.ac.za

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