Sepsis Awareness Training

This Sepsis training has been developed to raise awareness about Sepsis in healthcare and to up-skill healthcare workers and nurses who provide care for vulnerable adults and children.

Benefits of Sepsis Training:

• Enhanced Patient Safety: Knowing what to look for and when to act helps prevent the progression of sepsis, safeguarding individuals from severe complications.
• Empowered Staff: Staff who understand sepsis can communicate effectively with emergency personnel, providing essential details on symptoms and baseline observations.
• Reduced Emergency Admissions: By recognising and treating symptoms early, staff can often prevent the need for emergency hospitalisation, reducing stress and trauma for the patient.

• Sepsis affects over 245,000 people each year in the UK, with approximately 48,000 fatalities. Spotting it early can reduce mortality significantly. (Sepsis Trust)
• Sepsis isn’t a disease but a syndrome that complicates an infection—meaning any infection has the potential to lead to sepsis.
• Recovery from sepsis can be long-term, with patients facing ongoing fatigue, organ dysfunction, or psychological effects even after the infection is gone.

The Role of Training in Recognising and Responding to Sepsis

Providing support workers and nurses with sepsis-awareness training benefits both the staff and the individuals in their care. Training ensures that healthcare workers are not only informed but also confident in responding to possible cases of sepsis, recogniSing the signs, and taking decisive actions. At Tidal Training, we offer a one-day course that covers sepsis recognition and basic response using the NEWS2 system, all essential skills for a timely response.

What is Sepsis?

Sepsis (also known as blood poisoning) is the immune system’s overreaction to an infection or injury. Normally our immune system fights infection – but sometimes, for reasons we don’t know or understand, it attacks our body’s own tissues and organs. If not treated immediately, sepsis can result in multiple organ failure and death. With early diagnosis, it can be treated with antibiotics.

Content

• Why we need Sepsis awareness training?
• Introduction to Sepsis
• Definition of SIRS, Sepsis, Sepsis infection, Severe Sepsis & Septic Shock
• Causes of Sepsis
• Stages of Sepsis
• Identifying risk groups?
• Signs and symptoms 
• Diagnosis 
• Treatment
• Preventing avoidable cases of Sepsis
• Recording and Reporting

National Early Warning Score

NEWS is a tool developed by the Royal College of Physicians which improves the detection and response to clinical deterioration in adult patients and is a key element of patient safety and improving patient outcomes.

• NEWS2 training on the scoring system
• NEWS2 training on the thresholds and triggers
• NEWS2 training on the observation chart

Read our blog on Spotting Sepsis – Why It’s Critical for Support Workers and Nurses to Know the Signs

Course Assessment and Certification

There is no formal assessment for this Sepsis awareness training course.  The trainer will continuously monitor attendees and on successful completion of the training learners will be issued with a certificate of attendance which is valid for 3 years.

This course is often booked with the following courses:

• Basic Clinical Observations and NEWS2 Training
• Restore 2 Training
• Recognising The Deteriorating Patient