Competency information
Details
Perform all tasks in accordance with relevant procedures/protocols/legislation, including infection control, health and safety, and critical incident reporting, ensuring appropriate patient identity checks are performed and the patient is fully identified on each type of recording.
Considerations
- Protocols and requirements for hygiene and infection control related to the relevant range of procedures, including preparation, conduct and completion of the procedure.
- Protocol for hand washing and how effective hand washing contributes to control of infection.
- The relevant health and safety regulations specific to the cardiac procedure.
- The potential hazards and risks and the actions to be taken to minimise these.
- Relevant guidelines.
- Decontamination methods:
- chemical sterilisation
- steam autoclaving
- irradiation.
- The importance of checking and confirming the patient identity and the implications of not doing so.
- Process of critical incidence reporting.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Use correct aseptic technique and aseptic handling of medical devices in the critical care environment. |
| # 2 | Outcome Perform a range of bedside monitoring techniques and be able to interpret acute events and actions required, differentiating between physiological and technical abnormalities in patient monitoring techniques. (This should include ECG monitoring, oxygen saturation monitoring and non-invasive BP monitoring.) |
| # 3 | Outcome Administer oxygen therapy across a range of delivery systems to critically ill patients. |
| # 4 | Outcome Perform a blood gas measurement and describe its clinical relevance. |
| # 5 | Outcome Store medical gases correctly, ensuring adherence to the safety issues in the context of the critical situation. |