The Critical Care Nursing Skills Workshop Program aims to provide nursing professionals with advanced clinical skills training so that they can provide high-quality patient care in the intensive care environment. The program covers multiple aspects of critical care nursing skills, including the establishment of difficult vascular access, nasointestinal feeding tube placement technique, critical care ultrasound techniques, and advanced life support nursing skills for ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation).

· Comprehensive Practice: Combining theoretical learning with clinical practice to ensure that students can apply knowledge to actual work.

· Expert Guidance: Guided by experienced critical care nursing experts who share their professional knowledge and experience.

· Small Class Teaching: Small class sizes with workshops combined with clinical hands-on practice to ensure that each student receives ample personalized guidance and feedback.

· Simulation Training: Using advanced simulation equipment for training to enhance students' response capabilities in emergency situations.

The purpose of our project is to cultivate trainees to achieve excellence in clinical nursing, especially for critically ill patients who require a variety of advanced life support techniques and treatments.

· Enhance the knowledge system of the trainees, enabling them to possess comprehensive knowledge; at the same time, broaden their horizons and learn to pay attention to new developments in their professional fields.

· Improve the trainees' advanced nursing practice levels for critically ill patients, such as organ failure, severe trauma, organ transplant surgery, severe pneumonia, and other diseases. This includes targeted nursing under high-tech medical technology, advanced life support techniques, perioperative accelerated recovery nursing, difficult and critical nursing, and emergency rescue capabilities.

· Cultivate the trainees' innovative thinking, enabling them to integrate scientific research with clinical practice, learn to apply scientific tools, critical care techniques, solve clinical problems, and enhance the quality of nursing care.

The program provides a full-time, 2 weeks training experience.

Registered nurse:

Trainees are required to have basic nursing qualifications and a certain amount of clinical work experience.

Healthcare professionals in the field of critical care nursing:

Trainees are required to have basic nursing qualifications and a certain amount of clinical work experience.

Focus Areas & Subspecialties:

· Critical Care Nursing-Including but not limited to: comprehensive assessment of critically ill patients, respiratory nursing, trauma nursing, volume assessment and management, etc.

· Intravenous Catheterization and Therapy

· Critical Care Ultrasound

· ECMO Nursing

Skills:

· Basic nursing skills: Hemodynamic monitoring, arterial and venous puncture and catheterization.

· Advanced nursing skills: Critical care ultrasound techniques, difficult vascular catheterization techniques, nasointestinal tube placement techniques, ECMO advanced life support nursing techniques.

Training schedule

1st Week: Introduction & Welcome, Program overview and objectives

· Learning the Basic Knowledge of Vascular Ultrasound

· Learning Vascular Puncture Techniques under Ultrasound Guidance

· Mentor-Guided Demonstration of Basic Ultrasound Applications and Vascular Puncture

· Practicing Vascular Puncture with High-Fidelity Ultrasound Simulators or Real Volunteers

· Scenario-Based, Case Discussion, and Rotational Experience for Full Simulation Training of Vascular Puncture

· Learning Basic Knowledge of Gastrointestinal Anatomy and Nasogastric Tube Placement, and the Process of Nasogastric Nutritional Tube Placement under Ultrasound Guidance

· Mentor-Guided Simulation Training and Clinical Observation of Nasogastric Nutritional Tube Placement

· Combining Simulation and Real Cases for Practical Operation of Nasogastric Nutritional Tube Placement

2nd Week :

· Learning Basic Knowledge of ECMO and Introduction to Equipment and Accessories

· Mentor-Guided ECMO Workshop (Priming, Initiation, Weaning, Catheter Maintenance)

· Mentor-Guided ECMO Patient Nursing Assessment (Hardware-Related, Patient System Assessment), Catheter Maintenance, Equipment Operation Management, and Transportation

· Clinical Observation and Case Discussion: Anticoagulation Management in ECMO, Membrane Function Evaluation, Brain Function Monitoring, Early Rehabilitation Exercises, Early Nutrition, Psychological and Humanistic Nursing, etc.

· Professional Knowledge and Skills Assessment

· Feedback Session

After each program, every faculty member evaluates each fellow based on core competencies in patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, and system-based practice. Faculty members provide one-on-one verbal feedback and evaluation with the fellows. For difficult vascular catheterization techniques and nasointestinal tube placement techniques, technical competence is assessed through specially designed evaluation forms and advanced simulation-based skill assessment programs. At the end of the two-week training, a comprehensive evaluation of the fellow's learning progress and skill level is conducted by the clinical competency faculty committee.

The program is free of charge.