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 critical care procedure.
- The potential hazards and risks and the actions to be taken to minimise these.
- Relevant guidelines.
- The importance of checking and confirming the patient identity and the implications of not doing so.
- Process of critical incident reporting.
- Decontamination methods:
- chemical sterilisation
- steam autoclaving
- irradiation.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome The trainee should produce evidence of completion of basic or intermediate life support training before undertaking any of the learning outcomes. |
| # 2 | Outcome Perform the selection of the appropriate mode and pattern of ventilation with respect to the patient’s sedation level and lung pathology/pathophysiology, diagnosing common problems associated with ventilator testing and application. |
| # 4 | Outcome Interpret and apply the monitoring techniques available on high specification ventilators with respect to the ventilation settings. |
| # 5 | Outcome Perform and manage Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) for a range of pathologies safely in accordance with current guidelines. |
| # 6 | Outcome Set up and operate an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) with reference to safety, risk management and therapeutic effects. |