ACS: Tracheostomy Care
Course overview
To equip staff who are caring for adult patients with a tracheostomy, with up-to-date practical skills and knowledge to ensure patient safety and best practice. Skills stations cover care of the tracheostomy, resuscitation, emergency tube change and suctioning.
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Designed for clinical staff (non-paediatric nursing, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists)
- Demonstrate safe daily care and management of a tracheostomy patient.
- Demonstrate safe suctioning technique
- Identify sequence of steps involved with a tracheostomy tube change tube
- Demonstrate adherence to emergency tracheostomy algorithm
- Relate and implement the weaning process to each tracheostomy patient.
Candidates will attend lectures and participate in skill stations of care of the tracheostomy, suctioning, resuscitation, emergency tube change and emergency tracheostomy management. Candidates undertake a true/false paper and demonstrate via an OCSE the safe management of a tracheostomy emergency.
This course should be completed after Acute Care Training in Simulation
Read guidelines and algorithm issued upon course booking. Tracheostomy e-learning
Please log into Moodle https://education.bartshealth.nhs.uk/moodlelive for all Acute Care Skills course pre-reading, modules & e-learning and resources
10/01/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
14/02/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
06/03/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
24/04/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
29/05/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
12/06/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
31/07/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
07/08/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
04/09/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
30/10/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
20/11/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital
04/12/2020 08:45 – 17:00 Resuscitation Training Suite, Junction 8, 2nd Floor, Whipps Cross University Hospital