Health Professional Links and Clinical Awareness
Links for Professionals:
Royal College of Nursing - RCN and The Code - NMC professional Standards
General Practice Nurse Network - The Queen's Nursing Institute
Population Health - YouTube Video
Donning and Doffing PPE - useful guidance videos
- Donning - https://youtu.be/kKz_vNGsNhc
- Doffing - https://youtu.be/oUo5O1JmLH0
New NICE patient decision aid
Research shows a third of people with asthma are not using their inhalers correctly and not managing symptoms as well as they could be. The NHS Long Term Plan sets out an ambition to tackle this, and the new Patient decision aid – Inhalers for asthma from NICE supports this.
The decision aid is designed to help those with asthma and their healthcare professional discuss the different inhaler devices available and which one is right for them.
Skin Barrier Protection - prevention and management of moisture associated skin damage
Primary care Respiratory Society: Fit to Care, key knowledge, skills and training for clinicians providing respiratory care
Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Competency Framework for all Prescribers
If you are a prescriber s of 28 January 2019, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Competency Framework for all Prescribers replaces the Standards of proficiency for nurse and midwife prescribers (2006) as our standards of competency for prescribing practice. The NMC competency framework and new standards for prescribing programmes now set out the requirements for NMC-approved prescribing programmes and the competencies required for safe and effective prescribing practice
Cold Chain Audit
- Cold chain / fridge temperature monitoring standard operating procedure (example)
- What to do if issues with vaccine storage are identified during a Care Quality Commission inspection
- Cold chain audit
- Protocol for ordering, storing and handling vaccines
Glove Aware
To coincide with World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May, we’re hosting Glove Awareness Week from 30 April to raise awareness of skin health and appropriate glove use by nursing staff.
We are running Glove Awareness Week to highlight when gloves should and shouldn't be worn and how to look after your skin to prevent infection.
Approximately one in five nurses develop hand dermatitis – a painful, debilitating condition which may require nursing staff to be moved out of clinical areas due to the risk of infection from damaged skin.
Hand dermatitis can be caused by frequent exposure to water, cleaning agents and inappropriate glove use.
https://www.rcn.org.uk/get-involved/campaigns/glove-awareness