2012-04-09

Clinical Skill Teaching: venepuncture

Another academic year has started, so we participated with new 4th year medical students prior to their clinical  learning to practise venepuncture. On April 2nd and April 3rd we joined other medical faculties to teach them hand-washing, venepuncture, and insertion of an IV catheter.

Here are some climate of learning on that day in the venepuncture stations.




Although it is a very basic skill, but for a very inexperienced learning, doing is much harder than expected, so  there are some learners that cannot perform this task by the end of the day. The main mistake is the fixation of the needle when it is at the right position, in the vein, because during the blood drawing if the needle is not fixed (standstill) it will be moved backwards and you will not be able to draw the blood, and there would be some blood leakage around the puncture site.

So, education requires some training to get successful.

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