Simulation exercise Personal Protective Equipment - PPE (1)
Instructions
Method: practical exercise
Duration: about 2 hours
Objective: practise donning and doffing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), practise communicating with a patient while wearing PPE
Group: in pairs
Equipment: see separate checklist for the practical exercise; a sufficient quantity of drinking water (about 2 litres per participant)
Contents and plan
Before beginning the exercise, the trainers prepare the “isolation site”. Allow enough space for several people to get dressed at the same time and two decontamination sites for removing the PPE.
To begin with, the trainer shows the organization of the isolation area and explains how the exercise will take place. Participants pair off and decide who will play which role (clean/dirty person).
Donning the Personal Protective Eequipment in pairs (© RKI)
Two participants (preferably unable to wear the "full PPE") are designated to man the decontamination station.
In pairs, the participants carry out the following steps:
- Donning PPE in the green zone, supervised by a trainer
- Proceeding from the green zone to the red zone
- Short conversation with a patient, played by a trainer
- Proceeding to the yellow zone (decontamination)
- Doffing the PPE following the guidelines from the doffing instructor, supervised by a trainer
- Proceeding to the green zone
After the exercise, everyone sits in a circle for debriefing. Each participant and each trainer gives a brief impression of their experience, beginning by saying “The most important thing for me was…”...
Attention
Attention
You are responsible for the participants’ safety! Wearing Personal Protective Equipment - PPE can cause a certain amount of physical and psychological stress.
Trainers are responsible for ensuring that:
- only participants apt to wear PPE dress PPE;
- participants drink enough water before putting on their PPE;
- participants do not spend too much time in their PPE;
- there are chairs at the training site for resting in the event of fatigue.
Date: 01.09.2015
