COURSE OUTLINE

1. TITLE: Hospital Machines and Equipment: Its Usage and Maintenance

1. DESCRIPTION

This course explores the knowledge of Staff Nurses on specific hospital machines and equipment; pertaining to its operating instructions, specification and maintenance, that are used in rendering nursing care and supportive treatment required for patient facing life threatening condition.

1. DURATION

35minutes to 1 hour

1. LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this course, Staff Nurses will be able:

1. to identify and familiarize to the different parts of these machines and equipment and its purposes

1. to demonstrate the ability to operate these machines and equipment

1. to discuss the nurses responsibility in the maintenance of these machines and equipment

1. CONTENT

MECHANICAL VENTILATOR BENNETT

I. PURPOSE

Refers to any methods to deliver volumes of gas into a patient's lungs over an extended period of time to remove metabolically produced carbon dioxide.

It is used to provide the pulmonary system with the mechanical power to maintain physiologic ventilation, to manipulate the ventilatory pattern and airway pressures for purposes of improving the efficiency of ventilation and/or oxygenation, and to decrease myocardial work by decreasing the work of breathing.

II. INDICATION Respiratory Failure Cardiopulmonary arrest Trauma (especially head, neck, and chest) Cardiovascular impairment (strokes, tumors, infection, emboli, trauma) Neurological impairment (drugs, poisons, myasthenia gravis) Pulmonary impairment (infections, tumors, pneumothorax, COPD, trauma, pneumonia, poison

How long is a ventilator used?Doctors always try to help patients get off the ventilator at the earliest possible time.

Weaning - the process of getting the patient off the ventilator

III. PARTSIV. STEPS OF OPERATIONV. MAINTENANCEa. Cleaningb. Preventivec. Corrective

CARDIAC MONITOR CARDIOLIFE

I. PURPOSEII. INDICATIONIII. PARTSIV. STEPS OF OPERATIONV. MAINTENANCEa. Cleaningb. Preventivec. Corrective

DEFIBRILLATOR BURDICK DC200

I. PURPOSEII. INDICATIONIII. PARTSIV. STEPS OF OPERATIONV. MAINTENANCEa. Cleaningb. Preventivec. Corrective

PULSE OXIMETER

I. PURPOSEII. PARTS/MATERIALSIII. STEPS OF OPERATIONIV. MAINTENANCEa. Cleaningb. Preventivec. Corrective

SUCTION APPARATUS

I. PURPOSEII. PARTS/MATERIALSIII. STEPS OF OPERATIONIV. MAINTENANCEa. Cleaningb. Preventivec. Corrective

NEBULIZER

I. PURPOSEII. PARTS/MATERIALSIII. STEPS OF OPERATIONIV. MAINTENANCEa. Cleaningb. Preventivec. Corrective

1. EVALUATION

Checklist

Criteria: Skills 35% Knowledge 40% Attitude25%Total: 100%

Prepared & Submitted by:

SHAYNE ANNE R. LEE, RN