Children’s Community Nursing KITE Training Team

The KITE Training team is a well-established health training team, providing specialist training sessions across Derby to enable children with additional or complex health needs to access education, care and social settings.  


What subjects do we offer?

We already run a successful programme of theoretical and practical training packages, offered in the following topics:

  • Epilepsy awareness and emergency medication
  • Enteral feeding (gastrostomy and nasogastric tube feeds)
  • Respiratory care including suction, nebs/inhalers, oxygen
  • Tracheostomy care including BLS
     

We can also support schools with the interpretation and implementation of the statutory guidance ‘Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions’ which came into force in September 2014. The range of topics we cover to aid this, available as bespoke training requests, include:

  • Medicines Management for schools including safe administration awareness
  • Safe and Accurate Administration of Medicines
  • Asthma Awareness
  • Anaphylaxis Awareness and Treatment
     

The Medicines Management Awareness training session includes the following:

  • Interpreting the document in relation to their settings
  • Managing medication on school premises including safe administration awareness
  • Record keeping and training logs
     

The Safe & Accurate Administration of Medicines is a competency based course aimed at those who need to give medicines in their setting.

  • Identifying correct documentation & record keeping requirements
  • Understanding different types, doses and routes of medication
  • Practice of actual skills required to give medications safely
  • Competency based assessment at the end
     

The Asthma Awareness training session will include the following:

  • What is Asthma?
  • How to manage Asthma in the school setting
  • Caring for a child with an Asthma attack
     

Anaphylaxis awareness and treatment

  • What is Anaphylaxis
  • How to manage Anaphylaxis in a school setting
  • Caring for a child having a reaction
     

Below are links to our training prospectus booklet, along with booking forms and bespoke training request forms. The booklet should answer any questions you may have about the service, but if not you can contact by emailing the KITE Training Team: dhft.kitetrainingteam@nhs.net


Training information and booking forms