Certificate in Nursing: Caring for the Adult Undergoing Electro Convulsive Therapy

This programme prepares students to:

• Integrate and synthesize knowledge of the role of the nurse in ECT and to demonstrate the knowledge and skills required to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care of a service user undergoing a programme of ECT.
• Critically discuss the knowledge, skills and professional behaviours required in the management of the risks of ECT and anaesthesia for patient safety and the competences to manage a patient’s recovery needs post anaesthesia and integrate and synthesize knowledge of anaesthesia and the care of the service user who has had an anaesthetic.
• Interpret and implement new and existing knowledge through evidence-based practices of the professional, legal and ethical aspects of ECT administration and the principles of research, best practice, quality improvement and audit in relation to ECT.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills concerning implications of the risks of ECT and anaesthesia for patient safety and the competences to manage a patient’s recovery needs post anaesthesia and demonstrate the ability to discuss the principles of research, best practice, quality improvement and audit in relation to ECT.
• Synthesize new knowledge to enhance the practitioners ability to recognise and interpret abnormal clinical observations and the procedure of reporting them to relevant personnel and synthesize new knowledge and skills required to undertake intermediate life support.
• Integrate and synthesize knowledge to inform and educate service users and their family regarding purpose and benefit of ECT and critically discuss the knowledge, skills and professional behaviours of the merits of ECT as a therapeutic treatment and the wider debate surrounding the use of ECT;
• Critically appraise the proposed neurobiological mechanisms responsible for the therapeutic effects of ECT.

For more information click here