Capital Nurse Intra Venous Therapy Workshop 1st July 2024

Must have completed eLearning and assessment for Capital Nurse including Oral medicine assessment and ANTT prior attend the session.

Visit the IV Therapy Passport web page on https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/capitalnurse Or via our learning hub on ESR certificate and evidence must be sent to amanda.warnham@nhs.net prior the session or shown on the door to be omitted to the session

Intra Venous therapy using the Capital Nurse Program & Medicine Management

Our Trust offers a learning pathway to develop knowledge, skills and proficiency in administering IV medications. We follow the newly designed Capital Nurse IV Therapy Passport Program.

You are required to access the IV Capital Nurse e-learning program via the following link: please visit the IV Therapy Passport. Or https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/capitalnurse Or learning hub on ESR

Once you have successfully registered and completed all the e learning and requisite and assessments. You will be expected to send a screenshot of your completed e learning knowledge and assessments record and show proof of ANTT and Medicine management prior attending the face-to-face practical workshop and medicine management with Amanda Warnham Practice educator for clinical skills. The face-to-face practical workshop are twice a month dates are given to ward managers and Matrons twice a year for the year and bespoke session can be organized as clinically indicated.

This workshop is an opportunity to find out about Trust specific equipment (including pumps) with practical application of skills outlined within the modules. It also allows some protected time to ask questions and discuss concerns quires and the trust medicine management

You will be given the IV Practice Learning and Assessment Document (IV PLAD) in the work shop. There will be opportunity to discuss how to complete the document in clinical practice under supervision by a named practice assessor (decided by your ward manager) until proficiency is achieved. Then the passport page can be signed off which acts as the nurses’ certificate of competency that grows with the nurse’s development and skill.

We are pleased to welcome our new staff from other trusts. However your previous clinical skills need to be APEL please contact amanda.warnham@nhs,net. With IV therapy, if you have completed the capital nurse program then just the transfer of skills page can be completed by your Practice Educator or matron.

However if you have not completed Capital Nurse Program previously it is the trust policy that you must complete the Capital Nurse Pathway as part of your APEL. Once you have completed the eLearning you have the option of attending the workshop or just send proof to amanda.warnham@nhs.net, the competency book will be sent for a single sign off competency in practice for PVAD and CVAD.

Learning Outcomes

• Why capital Nurse Program discusses prevent of variation in training and assessment and enables staff to be trained and assessed against the same standard in the delivery of IV Therapy

• Discusses PLAD document and how to use

• The passport and transfer of skills page that is accepted as certificate and evidence of skills to practice

• Development of the underpinning knowledge, required by healthcare professionals to administer intravenous medication (IV),

• IV Medication Administration – the theory and principles of preparing mixing checking and administration via PVAD and CVAD

• Discussion of the CVAD and PVAD lines with advice to attend CVAD study day

• Patient confirmation/ID and relevance

• Discussion on diluents when to use which type and amounts

• Discussion on the 5 main right and why now 10 rights

• Medusa and the BNF how to use and find and trust policies in medication administration

• When Cardiac monitors are used and why

• Doctor only drugs and why

• Discussion regarding IV morphine and midazolam and inotropic drug therapy in relation to specific competency and areas of use

• Infection control policy for ANTT

• CD policy discussed in full and rational for use

• Typical drugs used within the trust the effects and side effects and why important to be aware pre administration

• Accountability of the Nurse pre during and after drug administration

• Fluids and Electrolytes in IV Therapy and the different delivery through lines, pumps and duration of lines

• Cannula patency and VIP score used in the trust

• Compatibility of drugs and those that need single lines only

• Discussion about BBraun pumps and self-assessment forms

• Risks and Complications of IV Therapy

• Anaphylaxis

• Why drug errors occur and how to reduce potential causes of errors

• Demonstration of practice showing the Preparation and Administration of IV Medication

• General knowledge Quiz re medication and IV therapy

• certificate is given for attendance on the day Certificate for Capital Nurse Competency is your passport as it grows with your knowledge and skills