Safe Device Use: Clinical Staff CompetencyICU
Branch · Ward Ready: ICU
Ventilators, blood gas, arterial monitoring and moving critically ill patients.
For: ICU nurse educators who must document competence on ventilators, temporary pacing, invasive monitoring, point-of-care testing and mechanical support.
Before you start: Safe Device Use (core) completed or in progress: this branch assumes the core's competencies and builds the ICU specialism on them.
The arc · 6 modules · Ward Ready: ICU
What you'll be able to do
The story
BMEssentia Medical City Hospital, Intensive Care (Medical Rooms 1-7).
“If you cannot work out what the alarm means within seconds and the patient is getting worse, take the patient off the ventilator and bag. Then think.”
Inside the track
The real screens: My track, a step with your mentor, a simulation, your skills map and the certificate.
The arc
Each week is one working shift: learn, see inside, do, work, think, check, reflect. Open a week to see its real steps.
Module by module, ward by ward
Side room 4, a quiet alarm and a closed door.
Spikes without beats.
Three devices, one earth.
After lunch, the gases lie.
The power test night.
The night the network went dark.
Proof
A step is done when there is evidence: a simulation score, a saved work document, a passed check or a signed observation. Opening a page never ticks anything.
The certificate
It names the track and the level you completed. Your portfolio holds the work behind it.
Walk every ICU bed space: bag-valve, oxygen, suction, alarm volumes, transducer set-ups, sockets and device labels; report findings.
Evidence it gives: Bed-space readiness and alarm audibility.
Teach a new ICU starter one device using your quick card and observe their first alarm response.
Evidence it gives: Peer teaching on ICU devices.
Run a downtime drill for loss of central monitoring on your unit with the nurse in charge.
Evidence it gives: Business continuity for clinical alarms.
Three levels
A baseline check on day one places you, or you choose. The competencies are the same at every level; the support and the pressure change.
Baseline under 50% · simulations at Foundation
Worked examples first, then guided practice. Simulations at Foundation difficulty with the coach on and marking as you go. Fewer cases per week (the extra and hard-only cases are hidden). Mastery thresholds 10 points lower.
Baseline 50% to 74% · simulations at Practitioner
Guided to independent: the standard track. Simulations at Practitioner difficulty, the coach hidden but available, the extra cases each week from the middle of the track, mastery thresholds as stated.
Baseline 75% and above · simulations at Expert
Independent and interleaved: every simulation at Expert difficulty, all extra and hard-only cases, stricter mastery thresholds (+5), and time pressure.
Ways to get this track
Deep Dive
$149for 12 months
General Essentia, the Studios and Design are not included. Subscribe within 30 days and what you paid counts toward your plan.
Premium · Pro
$299a year with Premium
Organisation licence
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