Podcast: Knowing Your Team – Part 5

This is the final part of our podcast series on ‘Knowing Your Team’ where we aim to gain a greater understanding of the roles of the different members of the critical care team. This month we will focus on the role of the Critical Care Nurse and the Advanced Critical Care Practitioner (ACCP).

We will start by talking to Nicki Credland who has almost 20 years of experience in critical care and outreach nursing and is now a senior lecturer at Hull University and the Chair of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN).

This is followed by a joint discussion with Alex Scott and John Cully who a both Advanced Critical Care Practitioners at the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Nicki Credland – The Critical Care Nurse

In this podcast Gareth Thomas talks to Nicki Credland about the roles of the critical care nurse and briefly summarises the training & career structure.

References

Nicki Credland – The impact of COVID and the future of critical care nursing

Next Nicki talks about the impact of the recent COVID pandemic on critical care nurses and gives some important insights into the future of critical care nursing in the UK.

Alex Scott & John Cully – The Advanced Critical Care Practitioner

In this podcast Gareth Thomas talks to Alex Scott and John Cully about the relatively new role of the ACCP and their experiences of training and working as an ACCP at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.