Online Course
Implementing an Early Mobility Programme for Critically Ill Patients
Improve your patients' outcomes by implementing early mobility programmes in the critical care setting

1-1.5 hours

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Chukwuebuka Okeke
Course instructor

Clinician-Researcher with a special interest in critical care and ageing.

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Introduction

Early mobility programmes for critically ill patients have been found to improve outcomes across a range of measures, from length of hospital stay to functional status on discharge. They are safe and feasible to implement, but there are many perceived barriers to these programmes in intensive care units around the world. This course explores the benefits of early mobility programmes and discusses the implementation of these programmes for patients in intensive care settings.

Aims

This course aims to introduce the benefits of early mobility programmes and discusses methods to help with their implementation and overcome barriers.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, readings, and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

  1. Videos
  2. Reading Activities
  3. Quiz

Target audience

This course is aimed at Physiotherapy and Physical Therapy clinicians, students and assistants. Other interested professionals such as athletic trainers, occupational therapists, nurses or medical doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 1-1.5 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

  1. Respect the Plus Community Culture.
  2. Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
  3. Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
  4. Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
  5. Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

  • discuss the negative effects of prolonged immobility in ICU
  • justify the use of early mobility programmes in ICU to combat the effects of prolonged immobility
  • describe barriers and facilitators to implementing early mobility programmes in ICU
  • propose strategies that can enhance the implementation of early mobility programmes in ICU based on current research recommendations

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

No relevant relationships disclosed by instructor.

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews
I would recommend this programme to all therapists, not only those working in ICU settings. It prompts for a more holistic approach. Each patient's case is a journey that does not end after the patient was discharged from the hospital. Clear and straight to the point information!
Jerzy Mucha
Physiotherapist
United Kingdom
Great tutor with excellent knowledge!
ALDONA FLORCZYK
Physiotherapist
United Kingdom
This course is really good and Informative, I highly recommend it for all the PTs practicing in hospitals and ICUs
Physiotherapist
Australia
It was a great lesson and nice package for PTs working in ICUs.
Karma Phuentsho
Physiotherapist
Bhutan