PEG / Enteral Feeding & Epilepsy and Rescue Medication – 14th December 2023 (Full day)
£106.20
This interactive complex care session, delivered by a specialist nurse trainer, is split into two parts.The morning provides you with the knowledge and overview of skills required to care for adults and paediatrics in the community who have a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube. In the afternoon session you will learn about caring for someone with epilepsy (includes rescue medications).
Target audience: This course is suitable for community nurses, experienced health care assistants / support workers and any other health or social care staff working with people with complex care needs in a community setting.
Time: 7.5 hours inclusive of breaks
When: 1st November 2023 09:00 – 16:30
Standard Cost: £118 + VAT / person for PEG and Epilepsy combined
Platform: Zoom
16 in stock
Course content includes:
PEG / Enteral Feeding Tube Care and Management
- Anatomy & physiology of the digestive tract (brief overview).
- Understand the indications for and complications of PEG / enteral feeding tubes.
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding in the care, management and monitoring of the enteral feeding tubes.
- Identify complications and risks associated with enteral feeding tubes.
- Explore feeding and medicines management using a gastrostomy tube.
- Infection control issues.
- Recording requirements.
- Regulations and policies.
Epilepsy
- Understand what epilepsy is; what happens in the brain during a seizure.
- Awareness of the different types of seizures.
- Awareness of the possible causes of a seizure.
- Recognise the signs and symptoms when someone is having a seizure.
- Understand how to safely care for someone having a seizure.
- Explore the specific risks and preventative management of seizures.
- Discuss the different types of treatment available to control seizures.
- Understand the emergency treatments and management of epilepsy.
- Recognise (candidates) own personal and professional responsibilities in line with legal, professional, local organisational policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Recognise and understand when and why to call for emergency teams and or ambulance.
