Locuming and capnography!

RE: Locuming and capnography!

Leanne Tyreman-Guest — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:07:07 GMT

If you are on facebook, look up Lou The Vet Nurse, she had a link to some capnography stuff a day or so ago. Hope that helps! Ps, honesty is the best policy! Xx

RE: Locuming and capnography!

Jo Mackenzie — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:35:00 GMT

Be honest with the practices you locum for, I found they were always more than happy to explain things to me if there was a piece of equipment I wasn't familiar with. Nobody knows everything and I think every practice would prefer their locums to ask about things they weren't sure of rather than try to blag it!

RE: Locuming and capnography!

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:54:49 GMT

Hi :) If you send me a pm I will send you something :)

RE: Locuming and capnography!

Nicola Smith — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:51:18 GMT

Don't worry about it. There will always be different equipment in surgeries whether that be computers, blood or lab machines, ga circuits, theatre equipment - even simple things like how they change their oxygen cylinders!! Just ask - they won't expect you to know everything. Imo it's better to not be reliant on machines as not everyone has them - it's nursing skills you need which you no doubt have after nursing for that long.

Ps - I've just done my first week locumming after being in the same job for 10 years + and it is honestly fine!!

RE: Locuming and capnography!

Sidonia — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:27:06 GMT

Found it!!!

https://www.alfaxan.co.uk/news/what-happened-to-the-elephants

There is also a link on there to their previous article on capnography physiology!

RE: Locuming and capnography!

Sidonia — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:23:55 GMT

Jurox had a link on Facebook the other day to a really useful article on capnography. I would've posted it here for you but I can't seem to find it I also had their really handy cheat sheet emailed to me too. Maybe contact your Jurox rep to see if they can send you the info.

RE: Locuming and capnography!

Tania Ford — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:41:01 GMT

[quote user="Chris Geddes"]When I saw the post, I was presuming you were talking about how you would manage WITHOUT![/quote]

LOL, no i'm more than happy to use my eyes, ears and hands as i have found these 'tools' to be the safest i could ever have!

Was just wondering what nurses do when they haven't used anything like it before. Unfortunately due to financial constraints (hence thinking of locuming), i am unable to undertake any paid CPD at present :( I would love to in the future though.

RE: Locuming and capnography!

Chris Geddes — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 13:35:21 GMT

When I saw the post, I was presuming you were talking about how you would manage WITHOUT!

Having more monitoring equipment can't be a bad thing. Use it alongside the skills you already have (noone should RELY on equipment only), but do some specific CPD on capnography? See it as a positive!

I'm told Claire Roberts from Synergy CPD is very good on this.