Gas Safe – Nurse Training

Introduction:

The Health Technical Memorandum 00, Health and Safety legislation, COSHH and a number of specific industry standards require that anyone involved in the use, transportation or administration of medical gases, must have annual training. As the HSE establishes more demanding standards for providing a safe working environment for employees, employers find it necessary provide proof of adequate training and clear training records for individual staff.

Nurses, doctors, porters and engineers working within the healthcare industries are constantly targeted with delivering better standards of healthcare to more and more patients. Paradoxically, the revenue funding to achieve these targets is reducing annually whilst risk management pressures are increasing.

Delivering face-to-face training is expensive, as well as the cost of taking a healthcare professional away from the workplace for training, there is also the expense of providing replacement cover.

E-learning solution

BOC Medical has an expert reputation in medical gas safety. This expertise has been used to develop a new e-learning approach to safety training that could be the ultimate solution to NHS employee training requirements.

Target Audience:

This is the first in a series of e-learning packages designed specifically for nurses. Other programmes are in the pipeline for porters and engineers.

Course content and learning outcomes:

Section 1: Introduction and Statutory Obligations

Section 2: Medical Gases

Section 3: Medical Gas Cylinder Identification

Section 4: Cylinder Storage and Handling

Section 5: Medical Gas Pipeline Systems

Section 6: Clinical Uses of Medical Gases

Section 7: Practical Use of Cylinders

Section 8: Assessment

The training covers:

• Overview of statutory regulations
• Explanation of medical gases properties and their clinical uses
• How to safely identify, store and handle medical gas cylinders
• Using medical gas pipelines

Expected duration of the programme:

The time taken to complete the programme will vary from learner to learner but will typically take around 2 hours

Accreditation:

The Core Learning Unit is working with our partners City & Guilds on accreditation for this programme

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