Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: General considerations

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Overview: The Clinical Management of Patients with COVID-19 course series is developed for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The course provides crucial knowledge necessary to provide safe, effective quality patient care. Presentations address all aspects of clinical management, including facility preparation and surge planning; health worker infection prevention and control; interfacility transfer; clinical management of mild, moderate, and severely ill patients with COVID-19; special considerations for geriatric, pregnant, and pediatric patients with COVID-19; rehabilitation; and ethics and palliative care.

The course series includes video lectures and downloadable presentations that have been updated with the latest guidance and evidence. Each module contains 5-8 lectures, and each lecture includes a quiz to evaluate knowledge acquisition.

Should you be interested in learning more about other aspects of clinical management of patients with COVID-19, please refer to the following courses of the Clinical Management of Patients with COVID-19 course series:

• Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: Initial approach to the acutely ill patient
• Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: Investigations and care for mild, moderate and severe disease
• Clinical management of patients with COVID-19: Rehabilitation of patients with COVID-19

Learning objectives:

By the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• relate the way in which the COVID-19 pandemic developed and the basic characteristics of the virus;
• assist with facility pandemic preparations, including surge planning;
• describe general methods, and identify specific measures, for infection prevention and control in health workers caring for patients with COVID-19;
• use ethical principles to develop critical resource allocation considerations, for use during COVID-19;
• utilize practical tools to maintain quality of care for patients during a pandemic
• describe palliative care techniques applicable to COVID-19 care;
• identify different types of referral systems;
• explain the basic tenets of safe interfacility transfer, including use of the SBAR communication method.

Course duration: This course will take approximately 3 hours to complete.

Certificates: A Record of Achievement certificate will be available to participants who score at least 80% of the total points available across all of the quizzes. A Confirmation of Participation certificate is also available for participants who complete at least 80% of the course material. Participants who receive a Record of Achievement can also download an Open Badge for this course. Click here to learn how.