Practicalities

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 1.5 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 - Reading Physiopedia pages, journal articles, book chapters. Watching videos. Attempting quizzes. 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 1.5 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:

• List the most common complication seen in hospitalised patients with COVID-19
• Select the radiological presentation for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Correctly identify the type of cough and sputum load in patients with COVID-19
• Discuss which procedures are aerosol generating and which precautions to take
• Describe non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilation in terms of uses, settings, precautions, and preventing complications
• Identify when a patient with COVID-19 is appropriate for respiratory physiotherapy referral
• Select appropriate physiotherapy interventions for patients with COVID-19 who have respiratory symptoms