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COVID-19 Training for Healthcare Workers

edX, Online
Length
2 weeks
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Self-Paced Online
Length
2 weeks
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Course delivery
Self-Paced Online
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Course description

COVID-19 Training for Healthcare Workers

COVID-19 is rapidly spreading across the globe and all providers must be prepared to recognize, stabilize, and treat patients with novel coronavirus infection. This rapid-fire, self-paced course focuses on the critical information required to care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following completion of this short course physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals will have a unified, evidenced-based approach to saving the lives of patients with COVID-19.

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  • Self-Paced Online
  • Online
  • English

Suitability - Who should attend?

Prerequisites

None

Outcome / Qualification etc.

What you'll learn

  • Recognize early and late clinical signs of COVID-19 infection in patients
  • Correctly apply, remove, and reuse appropriate personal protective equipment based on COVID-19 exposure risk
  • Systematically assess and provide immediate stabilization to undifferentiated sick patients
  • Perform a rapid bedside assessment of a dyspneic patient
  • Utilize bedside ultrasound to evaluate for COVID-19
  • Obtain and interpret key diagnostic tests in COVID-19 patients with dyspnea
  • Appropriately position and provide supplemental oxygen to patients with dyspnea
  • Administer oral and inhaled therapeutics in COVID-19 patients
  • Safely administer high-flow nasal cannula and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
  • Correctly provide bag-mask ventilation using naso- and oropharyngeal airways
  • Recognize the need for and perform endotracheal intubation
  • Administer appropriate sedative and paralytic medications for intubated patients
  • Apply optimal initial ventilator settings in COVID-19 patients
  • Troubleshoot common clinical scenarios with patients on ventilators
  • Assess and wean clinically improving patients off of ventilators

Course delivery details

This course is offered through Stanford University, a partner institute of EdX.

1-10 hours per week

Expenses

  • Verified Track -$10
  • Audit Track - Free
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