About this course

At the end of the course participants will be able to recognise and manage critically ill patients in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This course will cover the ABCDE approach, the use of PPE and the specificity of care in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This course has been designed by the BASIC Collaboration (Chinese University of Hong-Kong) and MSF.

Target audience

This e-learning BASIC LR for nurse COVID-19  is designed for nurses managing critical ill patients or COVID-19 patients in MSF settings.

Duration

This course will take approximatively 10 hours to complete. 

Learning objectives

The objective is that course participants can safely and correctly manage a patient with COVID-19

List of contents

This course will take you through specificities of COVID-19 patients:

• COVID-19 and Infection Prevention Control (IPC)
• Pre-screening and ABCDE introduction
• Airway management 
• Breathing management (inclued classification COVID-19 patient)
• Circulation 
• Disability
• Exposure (including palliative care and prevention bedrest complication)

Certification

We do provide a certificate of participation for this e-learning module.

Enrolment

If you want to enrol in this e-learning module, please e-mail at audrey.binet@paris.msf.org and give :your name and surname with exactly the same spelling as when you registered in Tembo (otherwise we can't find you in the list of Tembo users), information about the MSF project you are working in, and the name and contact details of your medical referent.

If you are not working for MSF, please mention in your e-mail your position and the health facility you are working for.