Critical Care Clinical Problem Solver  (CCCPS)

An evidence based approach to high acuity care and thoughtful clinical decision making are essential to the provision of critical care. Using principles of advanced clinical reasoning, prioritizing information, identifying critical actions and self-correcting in real time will allow you to provide quality care during the C3PS rotation and beyond.  This course is a mix of didactics, simulation, modules and clinical care within intensive care units.   You will be required to take ACLS during this month.  Either C3PS or ECPS can fulfill the school requirement for a clinical problem solver course.

Shared Objectives C3PS and ECPS:

After the Clinical Problem Solver Rotation, the trainee will:

1. Demonstrate the ability to identify a critically ill or unstable patient
2. Communicate systems issues such as quality concerns or patient safety events
3. Develop a basic intervention plan for common critical scenarios in this population
4. Demonstrate skillful communication regarding difficult/complex news to patients or families
5. Leverage the expertise of other members of the interprofessional team or personally enhance the workflow of the interprofessional team
6. Verbalize indications, risks, and steps of common critical care procedures
7. Obtain consent for common critical care procedures
8. Consider cost and potential harms of testing and weigh this against diagnostic value
9. Identify where bias may impact the provision of care in urgent situations
10. Select appropriate clinical decision support tools and apply them in patient care
11. Identify and develop an initial approach to urgent behavioral health situations that may include psychiatric emergencies or delirium
12. Verbalize how social determinants of health can impact exacerbations of chronic disease

After the Clinical Problem Solver Rotation, the trainee will:

1. Develop a systems-based approach to critical care clinical tasks including documentation and presentation
2. Verbalize transitions of care best practices
3. Describe basic ICU best practices including:
   1. Sedation holiday, early mobility, glycemic control, VAP prevention, pressure ulcer prevention, delirium prevention practices

FEB 10 2025 | cjb