🔷 Course overview

Discovering life in a critical care unit is often anxiety-provoking, as the professional environment is very different from that of conventional care units. It takes several weeks to become an effective ICU caregiver. Supporting new arrivals is therefore essential. This course offers a gradual immersion into the world of intensive care.

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🔷 Description

Pre-requisites:

• Be a healthcare system professional

Duration:

• 10 h stand-alone

HAS certification criteria:‍

• Criterion 2.3-12: Critical care sector teams manage risks associated with their practices.
• Criterion 3.2-04: The hospital trains its professionals in risk management using healthcare simulation tools.

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🔷 Key benefits of the training

• Several immersive scenarios (OHD, NIV, intubation, invasive ventilation) to familiarize you with the main principles of the different devices used in intensive care.
• Human factors (secure communication, workload management, situational awareness).
• Practical resources: device sheets, international recommendations, cognitive assembly aids.

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🔷 Training program

Independently, asynchronously

• ‍Introduction totraining

• Pre-test (positioning test)‍

• ‍‍Video-simulation and interactive training‍
  
  • Welcome and interactive tour of an intensive care unit to learn about the unit's functional organization, care protocols and the different equipment in a patient's room. The tour ends with a patient being welcomed and cared for by the team.
  • Immersive simulation of the management of a patient in acute respiratory distress. A specific focus is dedicated to each stage (high-flow oxygen therapy, NIV, intubation and post-intubation care).
  • Interactive activities focusing on communication, teamwork and clinical reasoning.

• ‍Post-test (measuring progress and validating skills) & Action plan

• ‍Training assessment