High Dependency Care (HDC) Course

A two day course for nurses (and/or student nurses in their final year)

A full in-depth and detailed high dependency care course covering the primary aspects that may present with high dependency clients

In today's modern, busy and successful care establishments, a client's demands may no longer be limited to 'routine care' as client care becomes more technically advanced. As the complexities of a client's care needs increase, the care team's knowledge may need to be more multi-disciplined in order to meet this demand.

To help and equip them in this endeavour, train2care have developed their own healthcare training course to answer and address this specific training need with our 'High Dependency Care' Course.

These courses are offered on an In-house and 'public' basis (for details see 'HDC Course Dates')

'The 3 Ps'

Prepare - Perform - Prevent

• Prepare and anticipate an acute exacerbation of a chronic condition  
• Perform an in-depth assessment to detect any changes and ascertain the possibilities of a new diagnosis  
• Prevent a transfer to hospital, if possible, by intervening with simple Clinical tasks (within the scope of practice) to alleviate and/or reduce escalation of symptoms which could result in criteria for a transfer to hospital  

Our High Dependency Care course covers:-

	The Patient with Altered Levels of Consciousness / or new confused state
	Respiratory Failure
	COPD  Asthma  Tracheostomy
	Hypertension
	Detection  Outcomes  Strokes Congestive Heart Failure  Atrial Fibrillation  Hypotension
	Low Urine output
	Analysis  Reasons   Continence  Dehydration
	Subcutaneous Fluids Administration
	Tissue Viability
	Nutrition  MUST Screening Tool
	Infections
	Sepsis
	Blood Tests
	Reasons  Meanings: what Results may mean  Acting on Results

 Next scheduled High Dependency Care Course

• HDC Course Dates
  
  This page sets out details (dates, venues, etc.) of train2care's current public High Dependency Care Courses.