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Royal North Shore Hospital Nursing and Midwifery
Infection Prevention and Control
Invasive Devices (Standard 3; Action 3.10)
Patients with invasive devices are at risk of developing an infection. With the identified risk there is a requirement to ensure that staff are appropriately trained in the insertion, maintenance and removal of these devices. During accreditation we must show evidence of this. The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in HealthCare Standards state that our staff must be appropriately trained in the below invasive devices:
Top 4 Invasive Devices:
Indwelling urinary devices
Intravascular access devices (Includes: PIVC, CVC, PICC, midline catheters, umbilical catheters, peripheral & pulmonary artery catheters, haemodialysis catheters
Ventilation
Enteral feeding tubes
In addition to the above specialty wards/departments should have:
Top 3 Invasive Devices - specialty areas (examples only)
Chest Drain
Wound Drain
VP shunt
Do you know?
If there is a pathway in your ward/department for training in use of these invasive devices?
If your recent competency for these invasive devices is in date?
If the guidelines/procedures in relation to these invasive devices up to date and where you can find them?
For any further information on Standard 3, 3.10 please speak to IPAC.
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