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Intensive Care Crisis Resource Management
Course description
The Intensive Care Crisis Resource Management course combines group exercises and hands-on skill stations with immersive simulation scenarios. The course addresses technical and non-technical skills required for the management of crises commonly encountered in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and provides an introduction to the workings and personnel of the ICU to incoming residents and registrars.
Target audience
ICU and HDU medical and nursing staff.
Prerequisites
None
Objectives
Team-training for ICU and High Dependency Unit (HDU).
Knowledge and skills
The objectives are to:
- have participants learn generic principles of complex problem solving, decision making, resource management, and teamwork behaviours during clinical care in order to prevent, ameliorate, and resolve critical incidents and crisis situations;
- have participants improve their medical/technical, cognitive, and social skills in the recognition and treatment of realistic, complex medical situations.
Attitudes and practice
- have participants build their capacity for reflection, self-discovery, and teamwork, and build a personalised tool kit of attitudes, behaviours, and skills which characterise expert performance through highly intensive and highly interactive instruction, critique, and feedback in a realistic environment.
Training methods
- intensive hands-on training;
- clinical skills and drills training;
- pause and discuss scenarios;
- immersive simulations; and
- problem based learning.
Training technologies
- part-task trainers; and
- low, medium and high-fidelity manikin simulators.
Course format and duration
One-day course
Cost
$935 (includes GST)
| Dates on application | |
|---|---|
| Saturday, 16 March 2013 |  |
| Saturday, 13 April 2013 | |
| Saturday, 8 June 2013 | |