Course description

This course provides attending students with knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to for becoming a nurse assistant. The course stresses on the role of the nurse assistant in a health care team and focuses on principles of effective communication, patient centered care, patient safety and infection control. Students learn to provide personal care to patients and provide assistance to other health care personnel in hospitals and in extended care and long-term care facilities.

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the importance of the nurse assistant’s role in improving the quality of life for people in the health care system.
• Encourage people to be as independent as possible.
• Support and maintain the rights of patients and families.
• Be sensitive to the physical and psychosocial needs of people in the health care system.
• Communicate effectively with staff, patients and their families and friends.
• Provide quality basic care for people in the health care system.
• Help reduce the potential negative effects of the health care system.
• Observe and document a person’s physical condition and overall well-being.
• Work well as team members.

Participant’s pre-requisite requirements

• Successfully finished 9th grade school
• Can speak, read and write in English
• Physical and mental fitness.
• Willingness to work as healthcare assistant.
• No criminal record

Course fulfilment requirements

• Attend and participate in all course sessions (theory, lab and hospital placement).
• Successfully passing essential clinical procedures in the skills workbook.
• Demonstrate competency in all required skills in the skills practice sessions and clinical placement.
• Pass the final written exam with a score of 70 percent or higher

Course description:

Nurses (like all health care professionals) are committed to maintain health and well-being of their patients. Unfortunately, it not uncommon that patients can come to harm either because of an error in the care provide or because of an unintended omission of care. Such harm is preventable if healthcare institutions foster a culture of safety.

In this one day session, nurses will learn some of the most common threats to patients' safety and the measures that can be taken to protect patients from harm. They will be provided with an up-to-date evidence based understanding of patient safety basic concepts, practices and how to develop a culture of patient safety in their workplace. Additionally, participants will receive good clinical practice highlights regarding organizational as well as employees’ role in assessing and managing risk factors using quality management measures (suggested tools will be provided).

This course is designed specifically for nurses and healthcare workers who are working across variant healthcare settings (primary, secondary and tertiary in addition to clinic base practice)..

The aim of MTC patient safety training course is to empower nurses and healthcare professionals with the needed basic knowledge to create and maintain a patient safety culture within their workplace;

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, the attendants will be able to

• Define patient safety and safety culture and their importance to insure quality of healthcare service
• Identify the emerging threats to patient safety
• List the international patient safety goals
• Recognize the need of safety briefing during nursing handover
• Understand causes of medical errors
• Reflect on how the principles of patient safety can help to minimize the incidence and impact of medical errors, adverse events, and maximize recovery from them
• Discuss healthcare workers responsibility in ensuring patient safety
• Understand how patient involvement and open disclosure can improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems
• Understand the causes and frequency of drug errors and how to reduce their incidences in clinical practice.
• Know how focus on patient involvement can improve the quality and safety of a healthcare system
• Understand the benefits of open disclosure
• Discuss a range of tools, solutions and strategies to improve patient safety problems and identify research opportunities
• Recognize workforce diversity and demonstrate skills in collaboration and effective teamwork for enhancing safety and quality of services provided

Methods of teaching

During this course interactive teaching approaches will be used in addition to multi teaching methods, such as

• Presentations;
• Videos
• Demonstration;
• Group discussions

Course description

Infection prevention and control practices are essential component of care. Policies and guidelines are constantly evolving as research helps to inform the evidence base for this important area of healthcare practice.

This one day session will provide an up-to-date evidence based understanding regarding infection prevention and control. This course is designed specifically for nurses and healthcare workers who are working across variant healthcare settings. In addition to developing understanding of micro-organisms, and how they cause disease, participants will receive good clinical practice highlights regarding organizational as well as employees’ role in relation to preventing and controlling infections and assessing and managing risk factors using quality management measures.

Moreover, this course gives participants guidance on how to search and find the relevant evidence based information and guidance they might require to help keep their infection prevention knowledge and practice up-to-date.

The goal of the infection control training

• Assure that health professionals understand how pathogens may be transmitted in the work environment: patient to healthcare worker, healthcare worker to patient, and patient to patient
• Apply current scientifically accepted infection prevention and control principles as appropriate for the specific work environment
• Familiarize professionals with the law requiring this training and the professional misconduct charges that may be applicable for not complying with the law.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, the attendants will be able to:

• Define standard precautions and emphasize their application in healthcare practice.
• Explain the correct use of personal protective equipment such as gloves, surgical masks, protective eye wear, protective clothing and utility gloves.
• List all conditions that have to be present in the "chain of infection" in order to cause infection.
• Discuss the epidemiology and the potential of infectious disease transmission.
• Discuss the organizational and employee roles in preventing and controlling infection including patient and family education.
• Discuss the precautions healthcare worker should take to prevent injuries caused by needles and other sharp instruments.
• Follow the proper procedure for the disposal of sharp instruments and infectious waste.
• Identify factors that may determine the overall risk for occupational transmission of pathogens and quantify the risk of infection following an exposure.
• List the things to do following an exposure to the blood of a patient.

Methods of teaching

During this course interactive teaching approaches will be used in addition to multi teaching methods, such as:

• Presentations;
• Videos
• Demonstration;
• Group discussions

Introduction

The Electrocardiogram (ECG) Technician performs electrocardiograms according to physician’s orders and established practices and procedures. The ECG Technician performs diagnostic tests to assess the heart rhythm and rate in patients. ECG’s are also performed before and after operations, during physical examinations of patients over 40, for patients with a history of heart disease, when patients are experiencing chest pains and when the doctor deems it necessary. They also provide quality services by monitoring ECG, and stress testing on patients according to established policies and procedures.

The well-trained ECG technician is an integral part of the management of patients, they are a critical member of the patient care team found in physician offices, emergency rooms, and hospital based cardiology clinics

During this course students will learn anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system, electrophysiology, lead placement, types of rhythms, AV blocks, and myocardial infarction. Additionally they will be trained on the art of safe care giving, being a healthcare member, healthcare environment communications kills and basic medical terminology.

Course general objectives

This course aim at preparing ECG Technicians to work in a clinical environment and healthcare setting.

• Define the role of the ECG technician.
• Describe the state requirements related to ECG practice
• Demonstrate effective customer service skills
• Maintain a safe environment and adhere to infection control policies
• Describe the Anatomy and Physiology of the Cardiovascular System
• Incorporate pharmacology within fieldwork.

Course specific objectives

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:

• Perform basic patient assessment and history, properly documenting information provided by the patient.
• Obtain patient vital signs
• Prepare patient and equipment for testing, providing patient safety, privacy, and confidentiality.
• Know and understand heart and ECG Terminology
• Know and label the structure of the heart
• Know and understand circulation of the blood within the heart
• Know and understand the cardiac conduction system
• Know why an ECG is done
• Know the 12, 5 and 3 leads of ECG, their placement and what they represent
• Identify and spot common artifacts on an ECG
• Be able to prep a patient for an ECG and run it accurately
• Recognize the cardiac cycle and how it relates to an ECG
• Successfully meet AHA criteria for certification in CPR.
• Describe behaviors for job success.
• Be able to calculate a patient’s heart rate from ECG tracing.
• Discuss the waveforms of a cardiac cycle and identify symmetry, direction, and amplitude.
• Identify the major classifications of arrhythmias
• Identify major variances om waveforms

Course description

The curriculum for ECG technician training is designed to be flexible, allowing participants to comply with their institutional requirements. The requirement for ECG technician training is 300 hours of total instruction (including classroom instruction, laboratory skill practice) and 120 hours of externship period in hospital setting.

This course provides consistent guidelines that will enable students to provide quality care for people in the health care system. Students must be active in the learning process, which emphasizes seeing and doing (experiential learning). The course gives them many opportunities to talk about attitudes and feelings they have about their roles as ECG technician, to take part in various learning activities, to practice new skills, and to ask questions. The course curriculum includes textbook lecture and in-depth instruction focusing on patient centered care in the following areas.

• The Art of Caregiving
• Promoting Safety
• Providing Care
• Special Care Instructions
• Transitioning from Student to Employee

The ECG technician training program has two components.

Part 1 (Theory & simulation training)

The first part of the ECG technician training program takes place in the classroom and simulation lab. modules will taught over 12 weeks (300 hours), during classroom training, students will learn all aspects of patient care, through lectures, videos as well as role play, hands-on demonstrations and practice.

In this course students will learn the following:

• English for healthcare professionals
• First Aid and BLS
• Infection control
• Skills of vital signs measurement
• Knowledge and skills for being a valuable and adaptable employee
• Communication, teamwork and diversity skills for the workplace
• Cardiovascular anatomy and physiology
• ECG Technique and interpretation
• Cardiac medication awareness
• Important skills and techniques necessary to be a successful ECG technician

Part 2 (Clinical Externship)

Upon completion of the classroom training students will begin the clinical part of the program which consists of 120 hours (4weeks) in two clinical areas (ward and clinic) (that will be completely coordinated by candidates sponsoring body).

During clinical training students will work directly with patients in a health care facility under the supervision of a named staff who will be responsible for student assignments and evaluation. In each clinical training day, students are expected to do the following:

• Complete 10 live patient ECG’s / day
• Interpret accurately 10 (12-Lead) ECGs
• Maintain safe work environment
• Performs general cleaning, maintenance, and calibration records of all ECG equipment.
• Coordinates and organizes supplies, equipment, and instruments needed for procedures
• Monitors, records, and communicates as appropriate utilizing computerized documentation systems