Welcome to The Skilled Nurse International Sample Course

In this course you can get an understanding of how our Learning Management System works, and you will experience examples of some of our learning activities.

What is The Skilled Nurse International?The Skilled Nurse was founded by Australian Nurse Educators who know how difficult it can be to meet our continuing education requirements, especially if you work in a small facility, or in a rural area.

Time, location and cost are all barriers to gaining access to the education we need to stay updated - not to mention that a lot of the courses out there are just plain boring!! Not us! We’ve consulted some of the best educators in Australia and have developed interesting, interactive online nursing programs at a very affordable price. The Skilled Nurse was created with the main focus of providing eLearning programs to help meet the education needs of nurses in many healthcare facilities throughout Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

We specialise in online training, and offer our extensive range of courses to nurses internationally. Our courses are written by nurse educators with vast clinical and university experience, so you can be sure that our courses are based on the highest Australian nursing standards.

Australian nurse education is recognised as some of the best in the world, and our understanding of current practices and knowledge is key to our success.

Why study with The Skilled Nurse International?Our courses involve you in all aspects of health care. We have courses in the following areas:

•Triage & Patient Assessment

•Basic and Advanced Life Support

•Drug Administration

•Workplace Safety & Behaviour

•IV Cannulation

•Infection Control

•Manual Handling

•Aged Care

We keep you interested and engaged with our courses by including numerous activities and videos.

For example, the next page comes from our Early Management of Anaphylaxis course.

Have a look at the activity on the next page.

Visual Activities

Myths about anaphylaxisLet’s begin by exploding some myths about anaphylaxis. Click on the Myths boxes below to read more.

REALITY:

Anaphylaxis is underreported Incidence seems to be increasingUp to 41 million Americans at risk (Neugut AI et al, 2001)63,000 new cases per year (Yocum MW et al, 1999)5% of adults may have a history of anaphylaxis (various surveys)

MYTH - Anaphylaxis Is Rare

REALITY:

No predictable patternSeverity depends on:oSensitivity of the individual oDose of the allergenoAnaphylactoid vs Anaphylactic

MYTH - Prior Episodes Predict Future Reactions

Case StudiesTo get you to think laterally about the skills you’ve learnt, and to put them into practice, we include a number of case studies.

The next page is from our Introduction to Triage course.

CLICK ON THEACTIVITY

Case Study - Your initial observationsGerald appears orientated and alert although weak - He is very cold to touch - His clothes are damp and he smells strongly of stale urine - His left leg is shortened and externally rotated.

As you assist the paramedics in transferring Gerald on to the stretcher in your emergency department the ambulance officers relate the initial history. At around 10 p.m. last night Gerald went into the kitchen to make himself a cup of tea and tripped on a piece of loose lino near his stove. He immediately felt severe pain in his left hip and was unable to rise.

Consequently he spent the night exposed on the cold kitchen floor. When he was found this morning, he was extremely cold, difficult to rouse, had been incontinent of urine and in severe pain from his left hip.

When you ask Gerald about his past history, he tells you that he is normally fit and well, although he gets a little bit dizzy sometimes. He takes medication for hypertension, but is proud of his general good health. He tells you he lives alone, since his wife's death last year.

You make a quick call to the doctor requesting his attendance.

Gerald, would be a category 2. He has a query fractured left neck of femur, he is hypothermic and in severe pain. His mechanism of injury also suggests that he may have other as yet undiscovered injuries.

After reading the case study what triage category would Gerald be upon first impression?

Click here to see the answer >>

Activity:

Aural ActivitiesNursing is a profession where you really use all of your senses - and we encourage this with the following auditory exercise.

On the next page, from our Respiratory Assessment course, we have a sample of breath sounds for you to test yourself with.

Abnormal or Adventitious Breath Sounds

Click here to view the diagram of abnormal breath sounds

Click here to practice your skills at recognising the different abnormal lung sounds.

Throughout our courses there are quizzes to test how well you have learnt the information presented to you. If you get a question wrong, you can go back to that section and have a bit of a revision.

But you can relax, we’re not going to quiz you on this demonstration program!

Test your knowledge with quizzes

“Excellent on line learning for all nurses, all relevant for my ongoing education, looking forward to doing more. Thank you”

“Excellent payment service and quick start time, easily understood, short and informative, dot questions and you could print off certificate”

“Well set out course, able to refresh answers by returning to previous pages if unsure of anything”

“It provided great detail but in simple terms to aid with adequate understanding”

What do nurses think of our courses?Nurses across Australia have been using our courses for over 13 years, and here is some of the feedback we have received:

CLICK ON THECERTIFICATEto see thecertificate of completion you get when you finish a course.

So what are you waiting for??You can enrol into one, two or twenty of our courses here.

For only AUD$5 per course, continuing professional education has never been easier!

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