Education

Global Sepsis Alliance

Throughout 9 distinctive sessions, globally renowned clinicians, researchers, experts, and thought leaders covered the need for early diagnosis and treatment of sepsis in surgical patients, data, AI, and predictive modelling in sepsis, how hypervolemia increases the mortality rate in sepsis, the role of biomarkers, detecting sepsis in ventilated patients, paediatric sepsis, including the new ‘Phoenix Criteria’, as well as personalised approaches to sepsis management.

bioMérieux is a global leader in the field diagnostic solutions to improve public health. They offer free-access medical education resources designed to bring you relevant, up-to-date and non-promotional medical and scientific content that may contribute to better patient outcomes and improve public health. Watch webinars and tutorials, follow online courses and read educational booklets developed in collaboration with renowned medical and scientific experts to discover and learn more about the critical role of diagnostics in the detection, identification and diagnosis of disease and appropriate patient management.

This health training course is designed to address the management of sepsis as a community health problem. A separate module is available for Inpatient.  A certificate is issued on completion.

Objectives

• Recognise that sepsis is a medical emergency
• Identify the risk factors, signs and symptoms of sepsis
• Outline the escalation of the septic patient
• Define the initial management actions for sepsis
• Discuss the requirements for 48-hour sepsis management

This course is applicable for all NSW Health Clinical Staff and may qualify for up to 1.0 hrs of Continuous Professional Development.

Training Module Description – Sepsis a leading cause of death in hospitalised patients. Despite the magnitude of sepsis cases and the global efforts already underway to educate healthcare workers, the need for basic sepsis education still exists. The reason for this is likely multi-factorial, and impacted by both the increasing number of new nurses and by the evolving specialties of existing nurses. Nurses commonly witness the initial changes in a patient’s signs and symptoms which may indicate that an infection is developing into sepsis. Since this condition is difficult to identify, especially in the early stages when treatment is most effective, robust critical thinking skills and practice are necessary. This training module will fill the need for ongoing, readily accessible, accurate education on the fundamentals of sepsis for nursing students, new graduate nurses, nurses desiring a refresher, and nurses changing their specialisation.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate an understanding of Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS), sepsis/severe sepsis, and septic shock
• Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of early recognition and treatment for patients with sepsis/severe sepsis and septic shock
• Review the interventions to treat sepsis/severe sepsis and septic shock
• Identify actions required by the nurse to facilitate appropriate care for patients with sepsis/severe sepsis and septic shock.