Anyone who is required to take peripheral adult blood culture samples in their clinical areas.
1) If you are a nominated cascade trainer or an existing member of staff who attended the train the trainer sessions in 2022 with the Clinical Skills Team.
2) If you are an HHFT staff who has been competent with Venepuncture before September 2022 and has been performing blood cultures collection in your area.
3) If you have prior competency and training in Blood cultures collection.
Your matron/ line manager / nominated deputy / cascade trainer / practice educator can sign you off in your Blood cultures collection competency. You will need three supervised practices before your final sign off.
Initially, these are being kept by the cascade trainers or practice educators in each of the wards.
You will now need to send the completed self-assessment document / ROPL to education.centre@hhft.nhs.uk
This needs to be agreed with the matron of your clinical area.
You will need to complete your Greenbrain online training of the Blood cultures collection (please see below) to register on the pathway and send both your Greenbrain certificate and your self-assessment form to clinicalskillsteam@hhft.nhs.uk
If you have not been signed off on this competency, then you will have to complete this.
This is a one-off competency needing to be signed off for Adult Blood Culture collection.
Staff can do the Green Brain training as refresher if needed after they’ve signed their competencies off.
No. Those who are needing the competency needs to complete 3 supervised sign offs from the nominated trainer or nominated staff.
If this is a skill that is not required in your clinical area, then you will be only signed off with Venepuncture. It is the learner’s accountability not to partake in any blood culture collection if they have not been signed off as competent in this skill.
Kindly refer to the most up to date Adult Blood Culture Collection policy in link: HHFT Collection of Blood Cultures Policy
or refer to chart below:
You can enrol yourself through Greenbrain for Blood cultures sampling pathway. This would involve online and face-to-face training prior getting yourself signed off on the competency.
You would be needing 3 supervised practices to be competent in Adult Blood Culture Collection.
You need to scan the whole document and send it to clinicalskillsteam@hhft.nhs.uk for processing. This will then be updated in your records in Green Brain.
