Certificate in Nursing in Procedural Sedation
Overview
The next intake to this programme is January 2025. Applications will open in October 2024.
12 week (Level 9, 10 credit, Special Purpose Award), developed in collaboration with Galway Clinic - provides Registered Nurses with the knowledge and skills to engage in safe practice with regards to procedural sedation within their scope of practice.
In line with International Accreditation Standards it is acknowledged that “Sedation and anaesthesia use are complex processes that must be integrated into patient care planning. Sedation and anaesthesia require complete and comprehensive patient assessment, continued patient monitoring, and objective recovery criteria.” JCI (2014)
Expanded practice of a nurse as defined by NMBI Scope of Practice for Nursing and Midwifery (2015) “Expanded practice should occur in the context of quality person-centred safe care, service needs and national policy. There is no specific stage in the nurse’s or midwife’s clinical career at which expansion of practice occurs. The individual nurse or midwife’s educational preparation and professional competence, and not the nature or degree of difficulty of the task, should determine role expansion (DoHC 2011).” NMBI (2016 p.27)
Recent literature directs us towards safe practice and that there is a requirement for certified training of staff directly involved in Procedural Sedation.
This programme has expert guest lecturers from clinical practice areas to support the clinical and practice content.
Programme Code
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GA_SPRSC_S09
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Level
- 9
Location
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Mayo
Method of Delivery
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Blended
Mode of Study
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Part Time
Course Fee
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€1,200
Start date
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January 2025