Education
As a Network in collaboration with CC3N, we support and review the training needs of our units’ workforce, sharing learning and practice issues with Education leads and Health Education England. Furthermore, we support the delivery and funding of educational activities within Critical care units.
Below are competency resources for Nurses and links to courses available in Higher Education Institutions within the Network.
Step One Digitilisation
Step 1 competencies are designed to provide Intensive care nursing staff with standardised knowledge and skills to care for critically ill patients while working under supervision. The Step 1 competency is designed to be completed prior to completing a post graduate critical care academic programme.
In a bid to drive Sustainability, greater transparency and easier learner document control to the Step one competency, HEE, NHS Elect and CC3N have created a digital version of the Step 1 competencies from the National Competency Framework for Registered Nurses in Adult Critical care.
The digital version is currently being piloted in various critical care units across the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Adult critical care operating delivery Network.
The Steps 1 digital documentation will be fully live in March 2023.
Link to HEE Courses within the Network
More nurses and Allied Health Professionals are receiving specialist Intensive care post graduate training as a new blended learning package delivered by a mixture of HEIs, Critical care skills Networks and Acute Trusts.
The University of Greenwich is one of the HEI delivering a blended learning experience for ICU Post graduate critical care nursing programme in collaboration with some Acute Trusts in the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Adult critical care operating Network. Learners at the completion of their programme would gain a Critical care Award which is underpinned y the CC3N ‘National Competency Framework for Registered Nurses in Critical care’ Step 2 and 3.
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Other Universities offering the Post graduate critical care nursing programme
The University of Brighton (Falmer campus) offers a part time course for ICU Nurses who wish to undertake a post registration critical care qualification. The Intensive care Clinical Practice qualifications requires completion of two 30-credit modules. Both modules can either be taken at Level 6 or 7, or one module at Level 6 and the other at Level 7.
The modules include:
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Intensive Care: Foundations of Practice
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Intensive care: Enhancing Practice.
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