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Chest drains

Lead: Janet Skinner, CS MEN Regional Champion for the South and East regions, A&E Consultant at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Director of Clinical Skills at the University of Edinburgh
Status: Complete and available on-line through the NHS Shared Learning Website
Review date: January 2010 (currently under review).

This multi-professional clinical skills pack aims to establish a standardised training for the insertion and care of chest drains skills for medical, nursing and relevant allied healthcare professions. NHS Lothian, the University of Edinburgh, NHS Education for Scotland and the Scottish Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network have developed it in collaboration.

The programme is suitable for any healthcare practitioner currently working or training to work in the NHS in the UK, who is involved as part of their work in the insertion and removal of chest drains, or the care of patients with chest drains in place.

On completion of the chest drain programme (completion of the pack, attendance at simulated practice session, supervised practice and successful completion of assessments), the practitioner will be competent in the clinical skill of the insertion or removal of a chest drain, and the management of a patient with a chest drain in place.

Learning outcomes have been mapped against the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) competencies and successful completion will contribute towards Core dimensions 1-6, Health & Wellbeing dimensions 1-8, Information and Knowledge dimensions 1-3 and General dimensions 1-2 & 7-8. Core dimensions covered include Communications (C1-2), Personal and People Development (C2-3), Health, Safety and Security (C3-3), Service Improvement (C4-2), Quality (C5-3) and Equality and Diversity (C6-1).

The pack has been designed to be adaptable to the local context, with agreement between the collaborators to alter only sections relating to record-keeping. All other sections are standardised and cannot be altered out-with the agreed review process.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 UK: Scotland License.

 

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