Guidelines on Professional Behaviour in the Clinical Skills Laboratory
June 2010
CONTENTS
1. Clinical Skills Laboratory (CSL) 3
2. Purpose of Guidelines 3
3. CSL Staff 3
4. Opening Hours 4
5. Access to CSL 4
6. Layout of the CSL 4
6.1 Wards 5
6.2. SimMan 5
6.3. Community Apartment 6
7. Skills Training 6
7.1 Compulsory Skills Sessions 6
7.2 Other Skills Sessions 6
8. Dress Code 7
8.1 Dress for OSCE’s 7
9. General Behaviour 8
10. Health and Safety 9
10.1 Moving and Handling 9
10.2 Handling Sharps 10
10.3 Latex gloves and latex allergy 10
10.4 Fire Safety 10
10.5 Incidents / Accidents 10
11. Policies / Procedures / Guidelines 11
1. Clinical Skills Laboratory (CSL)
The Clinical Skills Laboratory (CSL) makes available/ provides the opportunity for the student to learn and safely practice clinical skills in a controlled environment, in preparation for the administration/provision of quality care to the client. The CSL is purposely designed to replicate healthcare settings or living environments and facilitates undergraduate and postgraduate students to develop their clinical skills.
The CSL simulates a hospital unit, equipped with 18 hospital beds, wash hand basins, variety of life size mannequins to simulate client care situations /scenarios (Wilford and Doyle, 2006; Mcbeth-Snyder and Welsh, 2009; Sinclair and Ferguson, 2009). The CSL setting contains up to date teaching and learning resources such as audiovisual equipment, scientific charts and anatomical models, disposable and non-disposable supplies utilised in client care.
2. Purpose of these Guidelines
The
References: Ireland, The Safety Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005. Dublin Mcbeth-Snyder, L. and Welsh, M. (2009) Using Simulation to Increase Patient safety a model for Midwifery Education and Practice. presented at the 10th annual interdisciplinary research conference 5th November 2009.Trinity College Dublin. Sinclair, B. and Ferguson, K. (2009) Integrating simulated teaching/learning strategies in undergraduate nursing education. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. 6 (1), pp. Wilford, A. and Doyle, T.J. (2006) Integrating simulation training into the nursing curriculum. British Journal of Nursing. 11;15 (17), pp. 926-30.