Medical Device Safety for Clinical Staff
Use, check and escalate the equipment your patients depend on.
Program overview
Medical device incidents are frequently attributed to user error when the underlying cause is inadequate familiarisation, missed maintenance or an unreported fault. This course covers what clinical staff need: pre-use checks, understanding alarms and their settings, recognising a malfunction, the correct action when a device fails during care, electrical safety basics, decontamination between patients, single-use versus reusable classification, reporting a device incident and preserving the device for investigation, and the maintenance cycle clinical areas must support.
Why this program
Written for device users, not biomedical engineers
Includes what to do when a device fails mid-procedure
Covers incident reporting and device preservation
Explains the maintenance cycle clinical staff must support
Who it is for
Program objectives
- Perform appropriate pre-use checks on clinical equipment
- Configure and respond to device alarms appropriately
- Recognise device malfunction and act safely
- Apply basic electrical safety principles in clinical areas
- Decontaminate devices correctly between patients
- Report a device incident and preserve the device for investigation
Learning outcomes
- Apply pre-use checks appropriate to a described device
- Identify unsafe alarm configuration in a described setup
- Select the correct action for a device failing during care
- Differentiate single-use from reusable device handling
- Apply the correct reporting and preservation steps to a device incident
- Recognise an electrical safety hazard in a described clinical area
Curriculum
Module 1: Devices and Patient Risk
1 lessonsDevices and Patient RiskPreview
How device-related harm actually occurs.
Module 2: Pre-Use Checks and Familiarisation
1 lessons- Pre-Use Checks and Familiarisation
Module 3: Alarms and Settings
1 lessons- Alarms and Settings
Module 4: When a Device Fails
1 lessons- When a Device Fails
Module 5: Decontamination and Classification
1 lessons- Decontamination and Classification
Module 6: Reporting and Maintenance
1 lessons- Reporting and Maintenance
Duration and structure
6 lessons across 6 modules. Duration is expressed in study hours.
What you receive
This certificate confirms completion of Medical Device Safety for Clinical Staff. Duration is expressed in study hours.
Delivery format
- Self-paced — start any time.
- Study on any device.
- Lifetime access to the version you enrolled in.