Clinical Simulation
PICC Removal
About This Course
What you'll experience
While PICC removal is not very complicated, it still requires care and caution. To avoid complications like breakage or foreign body embolus, it is necessary to perform the procedure with utmost safety. Performing a PICC removal in a virtually simulated environment with a virtual patient provides nurses practice in the procedure and helps them identify the nature of problems they may encounter in real-life scenarios.
Learning Objectives
- Explain PICC removal procedure to a virtual patient
- Demonstrate detaching catheter from securement device
- Demonstrate removing catheter and applying dressing
- Explain aftercare instructions to patient
References
- Developed in alignment with NCBI, Percutaneous Central Catheter by Gonzalez R, Cassaro S.
- Vascular Access Device (VAD) planning. Infusion therapy standards of practice. (2016). Journal of Infusion Nursing.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011). “Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter–related infections”
What you'll practice
Core Skills Training
Core Skill
Patient Preparation
Successful procedures, even minor ones, are always preceded by an efficient preparation stage and the same applies for PICC removal. As part of this lesson, learners perform steps like confirming the patient’s identity, gathering supplies, and performing hand hygiene. The session is enhanced with adequate affordances, realistic environments, and a responding virtual patient.
Tailored to You
Customize Your Program
MedVR Education is bringing to you in-VR customization that will enable you to customize your procedural simulations by making selections from a range of feature choices.
- Select patient from a diverse background
- Choose preferred virtual environment
- Select equipment used in the procedure
- Modify difficulty level of the assessment mode
- …..many more to come
Additional customization options are available and can be developed to meet your specific training needs.
Physics-Based InteractionHow it works
Training
With prompts, guidance and affordances learners are hand-held through the process to practice the procedure in a virtual environment with a virtual patient.
- Photorealistic Virtual Environment
- Physics-based Interactions
- Learn by Doing
- Visual Affordances
Measure progress
Assessment
Test skills to perform the procedures from start to finish without prompts. An incorrect step will take the learner back to the start to start afresh.
- Live Scoring
- Instant Feedback
- Unlimited Practice Sessions
- LMS Integration
Get started
Ready to transform clinical training?
Book a demo to see PICC Removal and our full simulation library in action.