Respiratory skills can be provided as stand alone training courses or as one full day training session, get in touch to discuss your requirements. All Respiratory skills have elements of practical skills training with clinical devices and equipment. See course content below.
Respiratory Skills Training
Maximum 10 Candidates per session
Tracheostomy Management:
Anatomy and physiology
Indications for tracheostomy
Practical: Different types of tracheostomies
Practical: Changing dressings and tapes. Care of tracheostomy stoma.
Practical: Managing a cuffed tracheostomy and considerations for cuffed tubes
Practical: Fitting, managing and changing an inner cannula tube
Importance of humidification
Communication of a client with a tracheostomy
Nutrition for a client with a tracheostomy
Record keeping and documentation for clients with a tracheostomy
Emergency tracheostomy box contents and uses.
Emergency tracheostomy management national guideline procedure including use of Ambu-bag
Ventilation (CPAP/BiPAP):
Recognising respiratory difficulty
What does a ventilator do?
Reasons for ventilation
Non-invasive and invasive ventilation
Modes of ventilation
Importance of humidification
Ventilator settings and values
Common ventilator alarms
Complications of Ventilation and Troubleshooting
Practical: Ventilator set up with humidifier
Importance of documentation
Cough Assist:
The Cough Reflex
Active cycle of breathing
What is cough assist
Reasons for cough assist
Indications for cough assist
Abdominal thrusts
Complications of cough assist
Practical: Correct procedure of cough assist
Managing the cough assist equipment
Nebulisers and Inhalers:
Function of a nebuliser, inhaler, and spacers
Reasons and indications for nebulisers and inhalers
Practical: effective administration of inhalers and nebulisers
Prescriptions of respiratory medications
Complications of nebulisers and inhalers
Suctioning:
Reasons for suction
Oral/Nasopharyngeal/Tracheostomy suctioning
Open and closed suction
Complications of suction and recognising problems
What to look out for in secretions
Practical: Safe oral and deep suctioning procedure including ANTT technique
Oxygen:
Indications for oxygen therapy
Usual parameters for oxygen saturation
Practical: Oxygen delivery systems and equipment
Safe handling of oxygen cylinders
Practical: Monitoring oxygen therapy
Contraindications of oxygen therapy
Safe administration of oxygen
Anatomy and Physiology:
The Respiratory System
How to assess breathing
Emergency Respiratory Support:
Recognising, addressing and managing respiratory emergency
Practical: Use of ambu-bag in respiratory distress
Escalation of care