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A Critical Care Outreach Practitioner provides support and emergency care for patients at risk of deterioration. Their primary responsibility is to identify and initiate treatment for patients who are deteriorating within the hospital but outside the ICU. This helps either to prevent admission to the ICU or to ensure that admission to a critical care bed happens in a timely manner to achieve the best outcome.
Critical Care Outreach Practitioners are recognised as a lynchpin in maintaining patient safety. They provide a range of supportive and emergency care, ensuring that acutely unwell, critically ill and recovering patients receive safe, equitable and high-quality care irrespective of their location or pathway within the hospital. They also play a key role in reviewing and action planning following cardiac arrest events and supporting the Trust Resuscitation Group in all functions.
Qualifications
Degree in Specialism
Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professionals Council HPCP
Post-Graduate Course
Advanced Life Support Qualification
Experience
Experience in high acuity nursing (ED/ICU/CCU/AAU)
The Lead Critical Care Outreach Practitioner provides strategic leadership and management to the critical care outreach team. They are clinical experts in caring for unwell patients outside the ICU. As advanced practitioners, Lead Critical Care Outreach Practitioners practise across the four pillars of advanced practice: clinical, education, research and leadership.
Qualifications
Degree in Specialism
Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professionals Council HPCP
