Certificate: A CPD Accredited Certificate is Instantly Available Upon Completion
Course Description
This course will guide you through the essential knowledge and skills required to effectively use the Paediatric Early Warning System (PEWS), a vital tool in paediatric healthcare that helps detect early signs of deterioration in children. You’ll learn how to accurately monitor key physiological parameters, interpret PEWS scores, and respond to the early indicators of a child’s health decline. Throughout this course, we will emphasise the importance of timely intervention, communication, and collaboration within healthcare teams to improve patient safety and outcomes.
This primary audience for this course is nurses working in a variety of settings, eg, hospitals, community settings, emergency services, etc.
This course can be taken by non-nurses eg, HCPs or anyone with an interest in monitoring paediatric patients and making critical decisions based on early warning signs.
Course content
- Chapter 1 : Introduction to PEWS
- Chapter 2 : Physiological parameters in PEWS
- Chapter 3 : The PEWS scoring system
- Chapter 4 : Clinical indicators beyond vital signs
- Chapter 5 : Early identification of deterioration
- Chapter 6 : Escalation and intervention based on PEWS
- Chapter 7 : Documentation and communication
- Chapter 8 : PEWS and patient safety
- Chapter 9 : Legal and ethical considerations
- Chapter 10 : Review and reflect
- Chapter 11 : What to expect from the assessment
Course duration: up to approx. 2 hours, dependent on learner’s skills and abilities.
Certificate
All our courses are accredited by the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and are nationally recognised. Once you have completed your assessment you will be awarded a free accredited certificate in PDF format which is immediately available. Hard copies of the certificate are available at an additional fee of £5. All evidence of learning and certification will remain on our system for your future reference.
