Overview

Within the general health service commitment to providing the highest possible standard of care for all people using its services, healthcare professionals have a responsibility to protect their patients and staff from harm when using infusion devices.

This course is designed to equip healthcare professionals with the appropriate theoretical knowledge of the safe use of infusion devices, to enable them to proceed to the practical training stage.

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Course outline

PART 1: The legal and professional issues linked to infusion devices

• The British Legal system
• Codes of Practice
• Professional Issues
• Administration of medicines
• Record Keeping

PART 2: The clinical and professional risks of using infusion devices

• Risk Management
• The risks associated with infusion devices
• Free flow /syphonage
• Air embolism
• Post occlusion bolus
• Accidental bolus
• Policies and procedures
• Infusion device classification labels
• Decontamination
• Infection control
• Adverse incident reporting

PART 3: Gwent HealthCare NHS Trust approved infusion devices

• Approved infusion devices

The course concludes with a short assessment to confirm understanding, the results of which are automatically saved to a database when used with the Audit+ Management System for further analysis.

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Key benefits

• Roll-out training in safe use of infusion devices to all hospitals and departments with a single installation
• Reduce training costs by removing the need for expensive centralised instructor-led training
• Allow employees to fit their training into their workload, thereby reducing the impact training may have on their day-to-day work schedules
• Effectively train employees in safe usage of infusion devices without them needing to leave the ward
• Provide infusion device training in digestible, interactive modules that are proven to help improve understanding and retention levels
• Employees may complete the training over a period of time using automated browser-independent bookmarking
• Set global pass mark specific to your organisation
• Customise aspects of the program to include your organisation's logo and any specific policies on infusion devices.
• Provide one-click access to useful organisation-specific contact information and references from within the training
• Automatically save test results to a database for analysis and to establish an audit trail of your organisation's compliance with the law when used with the Audit+ Management System
• Print-out training certificates that are automatically generated at the end of each training session

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Server and browser requirements

This training program runs over a typical company Intranet or hosted website with minimum specification and do not require plug-ins such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave or Java.

Server:

• Microsoft IIS 5 or later
• Active Server Pages 3.0
• Microsoft® SQL Server 7/2000/2003 or Microsoft® Access (if training records will be saved to a database)

Browser:

• Microsoft® Windows - Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+
• Mac OSX - Safari 2+, Firefox 1.5+, Netscape 7+

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