Overview

This bespoke course was designed for forensic nurses to develop participants to competently assess patients who are acutely unwell or physiological unstable within a prison environment. By equipping them with relevant skills and knowledge, the course intends to enable nursing staff to have the confidence to initiate timely care of deteriorating patients, enhance patient safety, and to help reduce avoidable readmissions to acute services.

Format

Through use of lectures, workshops and simulation, the following topics are covered:

• A-E assessment of unwell adults
• Dealing with sepsis in a prison setting
• An introduction to history taking and identifying ‘red flag’ symptoms
• Communication skills including the use of SBAR
• Developing partnerships between acute and primary care

Feedback from previous attendees:

“We felt that this course must be run again and that all staff should go on it, as they can learn a great deal.”

“I very much hope that we will be able to continue working with you in the future and look towards developing this course on a rolling programme for all our staff.”

“We have got some very useful tools and none more so than the SBAR handover sheets.”

“Scenarios were absolutely brilliant, I have not enjoyed this sort of thing for such a long time.”