Covid-19 ICU remote-learning course (CIRLC): Rapid ICU remote training for frontline health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.

Background: The unprecedented increase in critically ill patients due to the COVID-19 pandemic mandated rapid training in critical care for redeployed staff to work safely in intensive care units (ICU).

Methods: The COVID-19 ICU Remote-Learning Course (CIRLC) is a remote delivery course developed in response to the pandemic. This was a one-day course focused on the fundamentals of Intensive Care.

Identifying teamwork-related needs of the medical emergency team: Nurses' perspectives.

Background: The role of medical emergency team (MET) in managing deteriorating patients and enhancing patient safety is greatly affected by teamwork.

Aims: To identify teamwork-related needs of the MET from MET nurses' perspectives. To assess the associations between MET nurses' perceptions of teamwork and their work experience and education.

A clinical competence approach to examine British and Finnish nurses' attitudes towards the rapid response system model: A study in two acute hospitals.

Background: Nurses' clinical competence involves an integration of knowledge, skills, attitudes, thinking ability, and values, which strongly affects how deteriorating patients are managed.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to examine nurses' attitudes as part of clinical competence towards the rapid response system in two acute hospitals with different rapid response system models.

Methods: This is a comparative cross-sectional correlational study.

British and Finnish nurses' attitudes, practice, and knowledge on deteriorating patient in-service education: A study in two acute hospitals.

Aim: The aim was to assess both nurses' attitudes about in-service education, and the impact had by attending in-service education on nurses' management and knowledge of deteriorating patients.

Background: In-service education cannot reach its best potential outcomes without strong leadership. Nurse managers are in a position of adopting leadership styles and creating conditions for enhancing the in-service education outcomes.

Nurses' ability to timely activate rapid response systems for deteriorating patients: A comparative case scenario study between Finnish and British nurses.

Background: Failure or delay in using rapid response system is associated with adverse patient outcomes.

Objectives: To assess nurses' ability to timely activate the rapid response system in case scenarios and to assess nurses' perceptions of the rapid response system.

Methodology/design: A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted using a modified rapid response team survey.

Developing clinical scenarios from a European perspective: successes and challenges.

This paper presents developmental work involving students from the University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland (n=9), University of Surrey, England (n=8) and University of Ljubljana and University of Maribor, Slovenia (n=5) participating in the Erasmus Intensive Programme. The Erasmus programme offers a two week 'Summer School' in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Using a participatory approach, facilitators from both the UCD and Surrey engaged with students from all of the universities to develop scenarios for simulated learning experiences, in the care of older people, for utilisation on an e learning facility and within the simulated clinical learning environment.