Acute Physical and Psychiatric Illness Management Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply systematic assessment techniques to identify signs and symptoms of acute physical illnesses such as chest pain, respiratory distress, and hypoglycemia.
• Demonstrate appropriate first-line interventions for acute psychiatric episodes, including agitation, psychosis, and suicidal ideation.
• Analyze the legal and ethical considerations in managing acute illness, including consent and confidentiality.
• Implement referral pathways and handover procedures to ensure continuity of care.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions and adjust management plans based on patient response.

Target Audience

This course is designed for healthcare workers, first responders, and employees in high-risk environments who may encounter acute medical or psychiatric emergencies. It is also suitable for supervisors and team leaders responsible for occupational health and safety.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

The practicals component provides hands-on practice of essential acute care skills including resuscitation, airway management, medication administration, and psychiatric crisis intervention. Learners will demonstrate competence through simulated scenarios and supervised clinical tasks.

Practical Activities

• Basic Life Support and Defibrillation — Learners practice CPR on mannequins, use AED, and perform team-based resuscitation drills. (8h)
• Airway Management and Oxygen Therapy — Learners practice bag-valve-mask ventilation, insertion of oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal airways, and set up oxygen delivery systems. (8h)
• Medication Administration and Calculations — Learners practice preparing and administering emergency medications via various routes, including IV, IM, and nebulized, with dose calculations. (8h)
• Psychiatric Crisis Intervention and De-escalation — Learners role-play de-escalation techniques, practice risk assessment for suicide, and simulate rapid tranquillisation under supervision. (8h)
• Integrated Scenarios and OSCE Preparation — Learners participate in full-day simulated acute care scenarios combining physical and psychiatric emergencies, followed by debriefing and OSCE practice. (32h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.