Clinical Assessment: Managing Emergencies in Primary Healthcare

• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners
• Allied Health Professionals
• Enrolled Nurses
• Midwives
• Nurse Practitioners
• Paramedics
• Other Health Professionals
• Registered Nurses

Content for the Clinical Assessment: Managing Emergencies in Primary Healthcare course includes: 

• Emergencies (risk assessment, assessing and escalating emergencies, pre-hospitalisation care)
• Circumstances for particular groups (children, older person, pregnancy, mental health)
• Urgent Care situations (non-emergency presentations, illness, and injuries)
• A practical afternoon - working through clinical scenarios for different conditions, e.g. cardiovascular, respiratory, neurology presentations, injury, sick child, etc. The scenarios will be selected depending on the needs of the group attending.

• Prepare nurses for triaging, assessing, treating and managing patients that physically present to UCC.
• Upskill, the nursing team, to be confident and competent in managing acute presentations and conditions.
• Improve awareness and understanding of how different conditions present in illnesses, injuries and emergencies.
• Recognise limitations and when to escalate care to ensure patient safety is maintained.
• Practical training using theoretical small-group scenarios based on acute presentations and conditions.

Full day face-to-face workshop

This face-to-face workshop involves lecture and practical workshop activities and scenarios you typically see in your practice. 

You will work with peers in the classroom to conduct practical sessions based on acute presentations and conditions.

There is no additional theoretical learning for this course.

Observation of practical activity, group-work using real world scenarios, and topic questions involving group discussions.

Develop a greater understanding of Urgent Care Service situations dealt with in Primary Care through a range of specific clinical scenarios and circumstances. For Primary Healthcare staff to build knowledge on when to manage/escalate emergencies in a primary setting when presented with an injury or illness, including preparing a patient for hospitalisation.

Students enrolled in Benchmarque Group courses should adhere to the following principles:

• Display a commitment to learning and to achieving success
• Be responsible and accountable for their own learning, behaviour and decisions
• Actively participate in all workshop activities and learning experiences
• Attend all scheduled sessions and be punctual at all times
• Complete all online assessments and workplace practice activities
• Work in harmony and respect the rights and opinions of staff and other students
• Treat others as they themselves would like to be treated
• Use acceptable language at all times

This is a clinical course designed for health professional working in General Practice or Urgent Care Centres. It’s main aim is to bridge the gap between primary care and the emergency department. Participants will further develop their triage knowledge and skills using practical tools they can implement in their workplace.

This course is delivered as face-to-face training. Informal assessment will be via observation of practical activity (group-work scenarios).

If your organisation is interested in making a group booking, we would love to hear from you! Click on 'Book a Group' on the right menu panel of the course page or head to our Partnerships page.