Description
Week 1
Common Respiratory Diseases
- Lower respiratory tract disease
- Pleural disorders
- Pulmonary disease
- POCUS and sampling
- Management
Learning outcomes
After completion of this week, participants should be able to:
- Describe lower respiratory tract physiology and the disease processes seen in practice
- Understand the different causes of pleural disorders
- Understand the different causes of pulmonary disease
- Identify the uses of POCUS and understand which patients may benefit from thoracocentesis
- Describe how to manage the patient with acute respiratory distress
Week 2
Oxygen Therapy
- How to identify a patient in need of oxygen therapy
- Non-invasive methods of oxygen therapy
- Invasive methods of oxygen therapy
- Monitoring a response to therapy
Learning outcomes
After completion of this week, participants should be able to:
- Understand which parameters are used to identify patients who are in need of oxygen therapy
- Describe which methods of non-invasive oxygen therapy are available and which is the most suitable for their patient
- Describe which methods of invasive oxygen therapy are available and which is the most suitable for their patient
- Discuss whether a patient is responding to oxygen therapy and when a decision may be made to discontinue oxygen support
Week 3
Blood Gases
- Why do we use blood gas analysis?
- How to take a sample for a blood gas analysis
- What is acid / base?
- Interpretation of a blood gas report
- Compensation
Learning outcomes
After completion of this week, participants should be able to:
- Understand why blood gas analysis is important for managing the respiratory patient
- Describe how to take a sample for blood gas analysis
- Understand acid / base status and what this means for the patient
- Interpret a blood gas report using a step by step approach so that this can be transferred to your patients in practice
- Understand the physiology behind compensatory mechanisms
Week 4
BOAS – From Admit to Discharge
- Admit considerations
- BOAS plan
- Anaesthesia considerations
- Dealing with the BOAS crisis
- Other nursing considerations
Learning outcomes
After completion of this week, participants should be able to:
- List the considerations which should be discussed with the owner when the patient is admitted to the hospital
- Discuss safe ways of managing these cases whilst they are hospitalised to minimise complications
- Understand how to make BOAS patients anaesthesia plans safer
- Explain the concerns associated with a BOAS crisis and how to manage these
- Describe other nursing considerations associated with these breeds and how we can factor these into our nursing care plans for hospitalised patients
The course will be fully tutored by Elle Haskey and Katie Gray, and will consist of 10 hours of CPD (10 points for Australia and New Zealand), and will be provided in various formats, including tutorials, tasks, case studies, forum discussions and quizzes.
Delegate Feedback from October 2021 course:
- This course made CPD a joy to do, I loved the variety of ways the topics were covered and discussed. Have already recommended to others in my veterinary team.
- I have learnt things from this course i haven’t been able to grasp in practice. Really enjoyed the tips. I have come away from the course feeling much more confident to approach and nurse respiratory patients.
- Found the blood gases tutorial really useful. I finally understand how to try and interpret blood gas results.
- Great refresher on respiratory patients and the blood gas interpretation section was easy to understand and implement.
- Speakers were really thorough, covered aspects of learning in general practice through to referral. Some great tips and knowledge to take away into practice to improve my own nursing care and understanding of these patients.
- Fabulous and relevant content, inspired to take new ideas into practice immediately
- Fabulous delivery from tutors and great detailed content
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