Pre-registration education: making a difference to critical care?

This paper aims to discuss the development of a pre-registration high-dependency nursing programme and evaluate its effects on student's perceived learning and confidence in managing critically ill patients. The programme consists of two modules that compliment one another, 'Care of the Acutely III Adult' focuses on a variety of disease processes and subsequent nursing care. Whilst the second module titled 'Caring for the Highly Dependant/Critically III Adult' focuses on assessment skills related to critically ill patients.