COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application

Online Course

Future Learn
COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application

What is the course about?

COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application
The course COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application is an online class provided by The University of Edinburgh through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Learn the principles and practice of critical care to treat and care for critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Course description
  • Learn to manage critical care patients whilst protecting yourself and your peers
  • 6 weeks
  • “One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity: the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient”
    Francis W. Peabody, Harvard Medical School 1925
  • This education resource will teach you how to effectively care for critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • You’ll learn the daily practice for frontline clinical staff supporting critical care patients with and without COVID-19, and how to apply ventilation and organ support principles to the care of a critically ill coronavirus patient.
  • Staff and patient safety are paramount. This resource will help you to facilitate your own emotional and physical self-care and wellbeing in this high-stress, high-risk environment.
  • You’ll learn about the required PPE and reflect on the practices necessary to emotionally support yourself and your colleagues.
  • Please note that this resource has been created in response to the COVID-19 emergency and does not correspond to the classic structure of a FutureLearn course.
  • You will not receive a certificate upon completion, and you do not have to follow the week by week approach. You will be able to select the materials that are most relevant to your work.
  • Apply the current and evolving principles of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the care of COVID-19 patients.
  • Apply evidence-based principles of advanced organ support and monitoring to the COVID-19 critically ill patient.
  • Apply evidence-based daily practices to care of the critically ill patient.
  • Develop a range of specialised self-caring practices
  • Reflect critically on the complex elements required to achieve both self-awareness and self-compassion in a high-tension environment.
  • This learning resource has been designed for frontline clinical staff who are caring for critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • This includes a wide range of healthcare professionals in acute care, from many different clinical speciality backgrounds.
  • You may have some previous critical care experience or none.
  • The information in this resource will support those refreshing critical care knowledge and skills, newly qualified doctors, those who are upskilling, and those returning to acute clinical services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • The University of Edinburgh
  • Founded in 1583, the University of Edinburgh is one of the world’s top universities and is globally recognised for research, innovation and high-quality teaching.
  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
  • The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh has been enabling doctors to pursue their careers in specialist internal medicine through medical examinations, education and training, since 1681.

Prerequisites & Facts

COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application

Course Topic

Disease Outbreak Prevention, Healthcare & Medicine, Psychology & Mental Health

University, College, Institution

The University of Edinburgh

Course Skill Level

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

Degree & Cost

COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / The University of Edinburgh you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.
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School: The University of Edinburgh
Topic: Disease Outbreak Prevention, Healthcare & Medicine, Psychology & Mental Health