Description
This course is aimed at nurses working in general practice
Week 1
Making Rabbit Anaesthesia Safer
- Pre-op advice for clients
- ASA grading – what increases the risk?
- Monitoring under general anaesthesia
- Post-operative care
Learning objectives
After completion of this week, participants should be able to:
- Recap rabbit anaesthesia and how you can help build up your confidence, including pre op, intra op and post op care
- Identify signs to be monitoring under anaesthesia – including CO2, SPO2, reflexes, HR, RR and BP readings
- Use the ASA grading system, to look at why rabbits may be at a higher risk, compared with dogs and cats when placed under GA
- Understand the options for intubation and maintaining an airway
Learning materials this week:
(released on Monday morning for on demand learning until the course ends – approximate timings)
- Pre-recorded tutorial with Claire = 50 minutes
- Further reading = 60 minutes
- Forum discussion topic = 15 minutes
- Multiple choice questions quiz = 10 minutes
Week 2
Analgesia – Taking the Pain Away
- The signs of pain
- Causes of pain
- Knock on effects of uncontrolled pain
- Analgesia options
Learning objectives
After completion of this week, participants should be able to:
- Identify the signs that rabbits show when in pain – these can be easily missed!
- Learn how to use with the ‘Rabbit Grimace Scale’ in conjunction with clinical signs
- Appreciate the secondary problems that pain can lead to, when it is not managed correctly
- Know what analgesia options can be used in rabbits
Learning materials this week:
(released on Monday morning for on demand learning until the course ends – approximate timings)
- Pre-recorded tutorial with Claire = 60 minutes
- Further reading = 60 minutes
- Forum discussion topic = 15 minutes
- Multiple choice questions quiz = 10 minutes
Week 3
Preparing for an Emergency
- Preparation at the practice
- Triaging rabbits
- Obtaining a capsule history
- Assessment
- Managing owner expectations
Learning objectives
After completion of this week, participants should be able to:
- Appreciate that when the phone rings it is important to be prepared for the emergency rabbit case. Know what to do and what equipment to set up to be ready
- Understand how to triage rabbits and when continuing to do so may be detrimental
- Obtain a quick and useful history from the owner to enable treatment to commence
- Conduct a full assessment of the rabbit – from head to toe
- Communicate with clients, managing their expectations and keeping them informed
Learning materials this week:
(released on Monday morning for on demand learning until the course ends – approximate timings)
- Pre-recorded tutorial with Claire = 50 minutes
- Further reading = 60 minutes
- Written task (client resource or clinical case scenario) = 60 minutes (to be submitted before 5pm Friday week 4)
- Multiple choice questions quiz = 10 minutes
Week 4
Critical Care – Keeping them Alive!
- What is and what isn’t an emergency
- What to do when faced with a rabbit emergency
- Stabilisation and oxygen therapy
Learning objectives
After completion of this week, participants should be able to:
- Identify rabbit emergencies – they are not always obvious, and knowing what is and what isn’t an emergency is important
- Understand the health conditions which are emergencies in rabbits, including gastrointestinal stasis/blockages, flystrike, liver lobe torsion and respiratory distress
- Achieve the important goal of keeping stress to a minimum
- Identify the signs of improvement and deterioration
Learning materials this week:
(released on Monday morning for on demand learning until the course ends – approximate timings)
- Pre-recorded tutorial with Claire = 50 minutes
- Further reading = 60 minutes
- Forum discussion topic = 15 minutes
- Multiple choice questions quiz = 10 minutes
The course will be fully tutored by Claire Speight and will consist of 10 hours of CPD given in various formats, including tutorials, tasks, case studies, forum discussions and quizzes. This course is tutored for 4 weeks, followed by a two week extension of untutored ‘catch up’ time, before the course officially ends.
All delegates will then have unlimited lifetime access to the learning material for future reference
Lucy Sperring –
Overall very good. Informative and detailed. Personally, I wasn’t keen on the poster design as the written task. I’m not a creative person and would have preferred something along the lines of a written essay.
Rated: Intermediate level
Bryony Barrett –
Very informative
Rated: Intermediate level
Kimberley Selly –
I really enjoyed this course. Very informative and the variety of tasks each week really helped me to learn the information in more depth.
Rated: Introduction level
Michelle Dalton –
Useful course – lots of good info and tips. Great tutorials and tutor support. Would recommend
Rated: Introduction / Intermediate level
Joanne Ingram-Luck –
really interesting with good content and great ideas that i can use in practice
Rated: Intermediate level
Joanne Ingram-Luck –
great course – well presented and easy to follow would definitely recommend
Rated: Intermediate level
gigjunkie86 –
very informative, easy to follow, able to ask questions
Rated: Intermediate level
Shelby Thomas –
This course was extremely informative, educational and insightful. Excel CPD is also very user friendly and easy to navigate.
Rated: Introduction level
Laura Mills –
Brilliant such a useful course to take back to practice
Rated: Intermediate level
Sarah Vose –
A very informative course that was well structured over the four weeks. Very interesting and helpful for improving practice. Really happy!
Rated: Intermediate level