Advanced Critical Care Practitioners - The Postgraduate Education Centre provides the infrastructure, support and guidance to deliver high-quality education and training to health professionals at The Dudley Group.

Critical Care

Practitioners

What are ACCPs?

Advanced Critical Care Practitioners (ACCPs) are professionals responsible for patients’ care during their critical care admission. We are a group of highly experienced practitioners from a variety of backgrounds. We develop our skills and theoretical knowledge to a very high standard, through a combination of faculty of intensive care medicine (FICM) competencies and post graduate masters. We support in high-level clinical decisions, clinical procedures and transfers to ensure that patients receive timely, personal, and effective care.

Critical care is quite a complex environment and as Advanced Critical Care Practitioners our experience within the department allows us to support both nursing and medical staff and to ensure the highest quality of care is given to our patients.

CRITICAL CARE PRACTITIONERS AT THE DUDLEY GROUP

What can

ACCPs do?

Undertake comprehensive clinical assessment of a patient’s condition

Initiate and manage a clinical treatment plan including requesting and performing diagnostic tests

Undertake invasive interventions including central lines, renal replacement catheters, arterial lines and perform endotracheal intubation

Perform the transfer of critically ill patients both inter and intra-hospitally

Provide professional leadership and support within a multi-professional team

Critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise different sources of information for the purpose of assessing and managing the care of a critically ill patient

Prescribe and order imaging for patients under their care

Understand and perform clinical audit, quality improvement and research

ACCPs in the

Critical Care Team

ACCPs are there to support other members of the intensive care team. Through a combination of teaching, mentoring and working alongside others daily to ensure the most optimum care for the patients in the unit.

We are currently a group of seven practitioners, both in training and qualified who work across the unit at Russells Hall Hospital: