Clinical Assessment: Managing Emergencies in Primary Healthcare

This workshop aims to bridge the gap between primary care and the emergency department. Nurses will further develop their knowledge and skills using practical tools they can implement in their workplace.

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.

• Registered Nurses
• Enrolled Nurses
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers
• General Practitioners
• Others on application.

Full day face-to-face workshop

Observation of practical activity (group-work scenarios)

As a general guide, one (1) hour of active learning equates to one (1) hour of CPD. It is the responsibility of the individual student to calculate how many hours of active learning have been completed. The hours of active learning estimated above should act as a guide to CPD hours.

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 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.

This is a clinical program designed for Registered and Enrolled Nurses working in General Practice. It’s main aim is to bridge the gap between primary care and the emergency department. Nurses will further develop their knowledge and skills using practical tools they can implement in their workplace.

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