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Aim: To understand the care and management of a spinal injured patient.
Learning Outcomes:
- Increased knowledge in the normal anatomy of the spinal cord and its function
- Understanding of the effects of spinal cord injury (physical and psychological)
Aim: To introduce knowledge and skills in relation to maintaining a healthy bladder and bowel.
Learning outcomes:
- Principles of maintaining a health bladder and bowel
- Increased knowledge of anatomy and physiology of the bowel in relation to spinal cord injury
- Understand the principles and concepts of bowel management programme for a client with a spinal cord injury
- Key components of a healthy diet
- What constitutes a high fibre diet?
- How to assist spinal injured clients to maintain a healthy bladder
- Documentation and consent
Aim: To introduce knowledge and skills in relation to maintaining a healthy bowel.
Learning outcomes:
- Principles of maintaining a health bowel
- Increased knowledge of anatomy and physiology of the bowel in relation to patients with neurological problems
- Understand the principles and concepts of bowel management programme for a client with a spinal cord injury
- Key components of a healthy diet
- What constitutes a high fibre diet?
- How to assist a neurological patient to maintain a healthy bowel
- Documentation and consent
Aim: To introduce and update skills in relation to digital stimulation and manual removal of faeces.
Learning outcomes:
- To safely and competently perform digital stimulation and manual removal of faeces as part of a bowel management plan
- Understand the principles of maintaining privacy and dignity
- Practise new knowledge and skill on manikin
- Principles of utilising Bristol stool chart
- Documentation and informed consent
- Attitudes to bowel care
Aim: To introduce and gain an understanding of what Autonomic Dysreflexia.
Learning outcome:
- Increased knowledge in anatomy and physiology relevant to spinal injured patients and autonomic dysreflexia
- Understand the mechanisms of autonomic dyresflexia
- Explain the signs and symptoms of autonomic dysrelexia
- Understand how to treat autonomic dysreflexia and maintain patients safety
Aim: To understand the principles of infection control and how best practice is maintained.
Learning outcome:
- Types and carriers of infection
- Chain of infection
- Features of the six links
- Breaking the links
- Seven stage hand washing technique
- Understanding the principles of infection control in relation to catheter care and bowel management
- Reducing cross infection
Aim: To understand the principle of valid consent and the 2005 Mental Capacity Act including Liberty Protection Safeguards.
Learning outcomes:
- The meaning of Consent
- Principles of Mental Capacity Act and associated assessments
- What constitutes valid Consent?
- Key components (time, cognition and information)
- Legislation and case law
- Professional ethics and moral dilemmas
- Case studies covering the following issues:
- Emergency treatment when a person lacks capacity
- Acting in the best interest of a patient
- Parental responsibility for children and children’s Consent
- Local policy and practice for obtaining Consent
- Principles of MCA and associated assessments
- Roles in relation to Liberty Protection Safeguards
Aim: To understand the importance of risk assessment in relation to moving and handling of patients with spinal cord injuries.
Learning outcome:
- Increased knowledge of anatomy and physiology of spinal injured patients
- Understand the risks associated with manual handling of a spinal injured patient
- Competent and safe practise of manual handling of a spinal injured patient
- Documentation and consent
- Good communication
Aim: To understand the principles of skin care and pressure sore management.
Learning outcome:
- To understand the anatomy and physiology of the skin
- To understand the principles of skin and wound care
- Risks of pressure sores to patients with spinal injuries
- To understand the principles and prevention of pressure sores
- Explain how to care for a client’s skin with spinal cord injuries
Aim: To introduce and gain an understanding of what Poikilothermia is.
Learning outcome:
- Increased knowledge in anatomy and physiology relevant to spinal injured patients and Poikilothermia
- Understand the mechanisms of Poikilothermia
- Explain the signs and symptoms of Poikilothermia
- Understand how to treat Poikilothermia and maintain patients safety
Aim: To develop the knowledge and skills to care for a spinal injured patient that has an indwelling catheter.
Learning outcome:
- Purpose of indwelling catheter in a spinal injured patient
- Risks and complications
- Safety and infection control
- Anatomy and physiology of male and female urinary system
- Care of indwelling catheter
- Explain the management of catheter care drainage systems
- Adhere to local policy and procedures
- Documentation and consent
Aim: To introduce and gain an understanding of Orthostatic Hypotension.
Learning outcomes:
- Increased knowledge in anatomy and physiology relevant to spinal injured patients and Orthostatic Hypotension
- Understand the mechanisms of Orthostatic Hypotension
- Explain the signs and symptoms of Orthostatic Hypotension
- Understand how to treat Orthostatic Hypotension and maintain patients safety
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