For Medical Officers and Nurses

There are many procedural skills that are relatively straight forward to learn and where our scope of practice permits can be readily incorporated into our clinical work. This workshop provides hands on training for many of these core clinical skills and for nurses includes a standard competency based assessment.

Hands on clinical skills taught in the workshop include:

Male and Female Urinary Catheterisation
Nasogastric Tube Insertion
Intravenous Cannulation
Venepuncture and Arterial Blood Gas Sampling
Basic Eye : Examination and Procedures: VA, eyelid eversion, local anaesthesia, eye irrigation/morgan lens
External cardiac pacing and Synchronised cardioversion
High flow Nasal Prong Therapy
Pleurocentesis and Paracentesis (Medical)
Competency Assessment: Male IDC, IV Cannulation (Nursing)