Certificate Content
Cert VN ECC
What the course entails
The Cert VN ECC is a further education course that’s been designed to build on and develop your existing nursing skills and knowledge, with the intention of enhancing patient care in emergency and critical care cases.
The course is divided into six core units, each containing three outcomes. Students are required to complete the coursework assignment portion of the certificate in order to be eligible to sit the final assessments.
The six core units of the course cover the following topics:
| Unit title | Outcome 1 | Outcome 2 | Outcome 3 |
| Approach to the Emergency Patient | Triage & CPR | Shock, vascular access & intravenous fluids | Emergency Diagnostics |
| Supporting the Emergency & Critical Care Patient | Monitoring the critical patient | Nursing the critical patient | Anaesthesia and analgesia |
| Emergency Medicine 1 | Cardiovascular emergencies | Respiratory emergencies | Haematological & haemostatic emergencies |
| Emergency Medicine 2 | GIT & medical abdominal emergencies | Endocrine emergencies | Urogenital emergencies |
| Emergency Medicine 3 | Neurological & ophthalmic emergencies | Small mammals, birds & reptile emergencies | Intoxications |
| Emergency Surgical Procedures | Emergency wound management | ENT & thoracic surgical emergencies | Abdominal surgical emergencies |
Cert VN Syllabus
What students can expect
- For each unit, there are three outcomes and three corresponding open learning assignments.
- You have nine weeks to complete and submit all open learning assignments for that unit to your tutor for marking.
- The assignments are comprised of short answer questions, which assess the practical activities and the underpinning knowledge of the units.
- There is a word count listed for each outcome assignment to help guide students.
- Students will be expected to show evidence of further reading, research and practical learning in their submissions. Submitted work should be referenced accordingly (Harvard method) and both aspects will be considered in the marking.
- Your prior nursing knowledge will be assumed in some topics, as this is an advanced certificated course.
- The course content is theory-based so students would not be expected to compile and submit case studies. The only assessed coursework are the open learning assignments provided.
Approximate length of completion for the course is 18 months, with intakes every six months in April and October. For more details of what you can expect from the course just click on the example Coursework and Assessment Calendar.