Suitable for Clinical Nursing and Medical Staff who will provide ongoing training to LHN staff who will be the local LAI trainers.

This session will enable you to:

• Assist your local LHN to be self-sufficient in providing local training programs, utilising a standard training format.
• Acquire the necessary skills to train nursing and medical staff to safely administer intramuscular injections with a focus on the ventrogluteal injection site.
• Feel confident to run an LAI Trainer, training session.
• Feel confident to teach a person, to teach another.
• Feel confident to assess and provide objective feedback.

Injection preparations, dosages and reconstitution will not be covered in this session.

Eligibility / Entry Requirements

Evidence will be required that participants have completed:

·        LAI Trainer training session

·        online LAI training, aseptic technique, and hand hygiene, are current.

·        face to face training with a trainer.

·        completed 5 assessed intramuscular injections.

It is highly recommended that the participant has already completed a Trainer, training session and has been actively training people in the provision of intramuscular injection technique.

This training is suitable for clinical nursing and medical staff only.

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Date, Time and Location

Monday 28 October 2024 0800 – 1200

To be held at Glenside Health Service in the Administration and Learning Services Building.

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