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Early Warning Score & SEPSIS Training for HCAs – Killarney 4th Aug 2018
National Early Warning Score & SEPSIS Training for HCAs
Duration: 3.5hrs
Location: Killarney
Provider: Irish Association of Healthcare Assistants
IAHA Members Price: €35.00
Non Members Price: €45.00 (Discounts on multiple bookings -contact us))
Candidates: Candidates for this course are expected to have a QQI Level 5 Healthcare Qualification & be working in a health care setting.
The aim of this training is to facilitate the HCA to develop and update his/her knowledge of measuring & recording a patient’s vital signs, with a focus on recording the findings in the National Early Warning Score Adult Patient Observation Chart, calculating a total EWS, and communicating the findings to the Registered Nurse (RN).
Course Objectives and Learning Outcomes:
Participants will be able to :
Identify safe and effective practice in measuring and recording patients’ vital signs in the NEWS Adult Patient Observation
Chart and communicating the total EWS and vital signs to the RN in accordance with local policy to include:
- Respiration;
- Inspired Oxygen (FiO2);
- SaO2;
- Blood Pressure;
- Pulse;
- Level of consciousness –utilising AVPU tool;
- Temperature;
- Calculating a total EWS & Communicating findings to the delegating RN
All our Trainers are experts in the field of Healthcare, Safety and Emergency Care and are recognised by the Irish Heart Foundation, Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, Health & Safety Authority, and other national and international organisations.
We bring realistic training, relating real life events into the class room.
Vital Sign Training with Blood Glucose Checking & Oxygen Therapy -EWS & SEPSIS for HCAs
Vital Sign Training with Blood Glucose, Oxygen Therapy & EWS & SEPSIS for HCAs - 26th Oct 2018
Duration: 1 Day
Location: Dublin
Provider: Irish Association of Healthcare Assistants
IAHA Members Price: €65.00
Non Members Price: €85.00 (Discounts available for multiple bookings- contact us)
Candidates: Candidates for this course are expected to have a QQI Level 5 Healthcare Qualification, CPR/AED & be working in a health care setting.
This course is aimed at health care workers who are required to record and report clinical observations and carry out blood glucose checking in their place of work.
By the end of this course candidates will be able to:-
- Understand & state normal parameters for pulse, blood pressure, temperature, respiration and oxygen saturation
- Take a manual and automatic blood pressure
- Take and record temperature, respirations and radial pulse, and oxygen saturations
- Explain how to assess level of consciousness using AVPU
- Take a blood glucose reading
- Benefits of Oxygen Therapy
- The Dangers of Hypoxia
- Patient Assessment
- Adult & Child Oxygen Administration
- Treating Respiratory Failure
- Orapharyngeal Airways
- Continuous Patient Monitoring
- Safety in the Presence of Oxygen
- Use of hand held suction units
- Flow Rates and Gauges
- Storage of Oxygen Cylinders
- EWS & SEPSIS
For more info please Email: info@iaha.ie or Call 089 9667041
All our Trainers are experts in the field of Healthcare, Safety and Emergency Care and are recognised by the Irish Heart Foundation, Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council, Health & Safety Authority, and other national and international organisations.
We bring realistic training, relating real life events into the classroom.
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Appreciate your Healthcare Assistants
Listen to their observations-
It is usually a healthcare assistant who notices when a patient 'just doesn't look right'. If they notice a patient is acting funny, their observations are changing, or something just isn’t right, it is the nurse’s job to respect that observation and investigate.
The assessment of a patient is one of those tasks that cannot be delegated, but this doesn’t mean that a care assistant can’t notice problems and escalate them to you. Ignoring these escalations could lead to poorer patient outcomes and a sense of disrespect for the healthcare assistant.
You should empower your healthcare assistants to be your eyes and ears. If they think something if wrong - listen and investigate.
Appreciate their skill-set
Healthcare assistants and clinical support workers have started to undertake lot of advanced roles for little or no extra reward; venepuncture, cannulation, ECGs, catheterisation, feeding, wound assessments, pressure area care - list is endless.
If they help you out by doing one of these for you, make sure you say thank you. Generally these 'extra roles' are not within their job description so are performing these tasks out of choice.
Treat them as one of the team
You communicate with the doctors, the patients, the family, and other nurses, but how well do you communicate with your healthcare assistants?
Healthcare assistants are a vital part of the team, not only for the work they do and the observations they make, but because the whole system would fall apart without them.
There is no proverbial 'i' in team.
Include healthcare assistants in care planning and ask their opinion. They have a wealth of knowledge that should be respected. See 'Listen to their observations'.
Don’t take them for granted
Nurses know very well what it is like to have someone look past you, to feel like you don’t matter, and that your input isn’t valuable or welcome.
Healthcare assistants are the backbone of the HSE. They are responsible for the dirtiest jobs, the most difficult ratios, and get the least amount of pay and respect.
Say 'Thank You'
Those two words mean a lot!
A simple 'thank you' lifts the morale of, not only the healthcare assistants, but your whole team. It can make a massive difference even after those exhausting shifts.
Because HCA’s do more ….. So do we!!!
We are excited to introduce our new range of Healthcare Training!!!
Now Healthcare Assistants are far more versatile in the work they do. Not only do they work in the traditional Nursing Home or Homecare setting but in Hospitals, MRI Clinics, Emergency Departments, Palliative Care, Maternity Care, Phlebotomy Outpatients, Endoscopy & Oncology departments to name but a few.
We provide training to support the Healthcare Assistant in whatever role they choose.
Call or Email us to see how you can further your career as a Healthcare Assistant
Contact: 089 9667041 / 021 2348973 Email: info@iaha.ie
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National Positive Aging Strategy -Survey
Government Survey
During 2018 the Healthy and Positive Ageing Initiative, on behalf of the Department of Health, will carry out a comprehensive review of actions, interventions and programmes relating to older people and ageing with a particular focus on those developed or completed since the publication of the National Positive Ageing Strategy (2013).
This review will focus on each of the four National Positive Ageing Strategy (NPAS) goals (Participation, Health, Security and Research).
The main deliverable will be a digital directory of actions, interventions and programmes carried out by policy makers and stakeholders at national and local level linked to the goals and action areas of the NPAS and the Age Friendly/WHO domain areas.
Internal and external actions and programmes relating to older people are of interest.
If you have carried out actions or programmes that you think may be relevant to any of the Goals or Action Areas and wish to have information about your activities included in this directory, we would be grateful if you could complete a short survey detailing your actions in this area.