PREPARED – Preventing & Responding to Clinical Deterioration 2025

In the dynamic environment of Australian hospitals, nurses play a crucial role in the recognition and response to clinical deterioration. This course meets the requirement of the Australian National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards for Standard 8 Safety and Quality – Standard 8 Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration Standard and aims to enhance your understanding and skills in this critical aspect of healthcare, ensuring better patient outcomes and safety.

Recognise the signs: clinical deterioration can often be subtle, as a nurse your vigilance in monitoring vital signs, changes in physical and mental conditions and deviations from the expected trajectory of illness and recovery is pivotal.

Escalate effectively: Early recognition involves being alert to the indicators of deterioration and utilising effective communication including the use of clinical handover tools like ISBAR to facilitate early activation of rapid response systems via MET calls.

Make a difference: Knowledge is power. Enrol in this course and be PREPARED. Your expertise, vigilance and prompt action can make a significant difference in patient outcomes. Stay informed, and keep making a difference.

The Medcast PREPARED online course uses a case based approach to address the key criteria of Standard 8 – Recognising and Responding to Acute Deterioration from the 2nd edition of the National Safety and Quality Health Care Standards.  Applying the ABCDE approach to patient case studies, this course explains clinical physiology to help you understand the causes of deterioration to facilitate early recognition and response.

Online eLearning & webinar sessions cover:

• When to worry: Red flags & essential physiology of deterioration
• Managing cardiac causes of deterioration – chest pain, syncope & shock
• Managing respiratory causes of deterioration – respiratory failure, asthma & pneumonia
• Managing neurological causes of deterioration – stroke, delirium & seizures
• Managing surgical causes of deterioration – sepsis, bleeding & pain
• Responding to deterioration – Escalation, communication & complications