For nurse practitioners, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses, junior doctors and medical students
Understand it once. Remember it for good.
Structured clinical education for urgent care, ED fast track and primary care — Australian guidelines, Australian scope of practice.
Free reference cards, sent as each module is finished. Three Foundations topics are free to read, no account needed.
Written against · Therapeutic Guidelines · RACGP & ACRRM · NMBA · ACSQHC · AURA · CEC · Between the Flags
How every topic is written
Three rules, applied to every topic.
01
Mechanism first
Enough pathophysiology to make the clinical picture make sense — and no textbook detour. When the mechanism is clear, the fact stops needing to be memorised.
02
Reasoning made explicit
How experienced clinicians actually think, including how they go wrong. Illness scripts, test characteristics, and the biases that close a diagnosis too early.
03
Everything traceable
Every actionable statement — dose, threshold, decision rule — carries an in-text citation and a per-topic reference list. Not a bibliography at the end of 26,000 words.
Red-flag card · DET
Recognising the deteriorating patient
- Any observation in the red zone on your local chart. Escalate now. Do not repeat the reading and wait to see whether it settles.
- A trend across two sets, even inside the yellow zone. A patient moving in one direction is deteriorating, whatever any single number says.
- A rising respiratory rate. The earliest sign of deterioration and the one most often not counted. Count it for a full minute.
- New confusion, agitation or drowsiness. Sepsis and hypoxia present as altered behaviour before they present as numbers.
- Mottled skin, prolonged capillary refill, falling urine output. Perfusion failing while the blood pressure still looks normal.
- Staff, family or the patient saying something is wrong. Worry is an escalation criterion in its own right, not a soft sign.
Calling criteria and escalation thresholds differ between services — follow your local CERS or Between the Flags chart. Educational content; check current local protocols before acting.
The free reference set
One card per module. What must not be missed.
A single page per topic, in the order you would actually check it — written to be printed, put in a lanyard pocket, or read on a phone between patients.
They are free, they stay free, and they are the fastest way to see whether the writing is worth your time.
The first program
Clinical Practice Essentials: Assessment, Reasoning and Prescribing
Four courses, one program: how to assess, how to reason to a diagnosis, how to recognise the patient who is getting worse, and how to prescribe safely. Ten further modules follow.
PRESC Paid
Safe and Sensible Prescribing
The decision to prescribe, the choice, the adjustment, the stewardship. Written for the RN prescriber endorsement and mapped to the National Prescribing Competencies Framework.
CR Paid
Clinical Reasoning & Diagnostic Safety
Hypothetico-deductive reasoning, illness scripts, test characteristics, probabilistic thinking — and the failure modes that produce diagnostic error.
DET Paid
Deteriorating Patient, Sepsis & Safety-Netting
Recognition, escalation, and the safety net you leave behind when you send someone home. Aligned to the national Sepsis Clinical Care Standard, and to track-and-trigger charts such as Between the Flags.
FND Free samples
Foundations of Clinical Assessment
How to look before you know what you are looking for. History, examination and the assessment habits everything else is built on.
Each course gives 12 months’ access. Prices and membership
How CPD works here
Every completed activity writes a permanent record.
Not just “completed course X”. The record is append-only — corrections add a row rather than editing one — and every certificate carries a number an employer or regulator can check.
| Recorded | Why it is there |
|---|---|
| Hours claimed | Worked out by a published method from what you actually do, always rounded down, then replaced by measured completion time once enough people have finished. Not a number chosen to look good. |
| Learning outcomes | Snapshotted as they stood when you took the activity, so a certificate still describes what you actually did after the course is rewritten. |
| Assessment & threshold | Type, score, pass mark and attempt count. “Passed” on its own is not evidence. |
| Content version | Which version of the material you completed. Guidelines change; the record should not. |
| Certificate number | Publicly verifiable, which also makes a forged certificate carrying this brand useless. |
CPD scope. Hours and certificates here are for self-recorded CPD — the way registered nurses, nurse practitioners and advanced practice nurses record theirs with the NMBA. Our activities are not currently accredited by the RACGP or ACRRM, so they do not count towards a specialist medical college CPD program. Doctors and medical students are welcome and the material is written for them too, but it should be recorded as you would any other unaccredited learning.
Free, now
Start with the red-flag cards.
Email info@clinicalknowledgehub.com.au and we will send each card as it is finished. Nothing else, and nothing sold to anyone.