Marking Criteria

Assessment criteria

1	Introduces self and explains procedure.
2	Cleans hands with alcohol hand rub and dons disposable gloves and apron.
3	Cleans trolley with detergent wipes (or equivalent) from farthest to nearest point.
4	Removes and disposes of gloves and apron. Cleans hands with alcohol hand rub.
5	Checks that all the equipment required for the procedure is available and, where applicable, is sterile (i.e. that packaging is undamaged, intact and dry, and that sterility indicators are present on any sterilised items and have changed colour, where applicable).
6	Places all the equipment required for the procedure on the bottom shelf of the clean dressing trolley (or suitable equivalent). (Equipment: sterile dressing pack, NaCl 0.9% for cleaning, alcohol cleaning wipes, wound dressing, alcohol hand rub, and disposable apron.)
7	Takes the trolley to the child’s bedside, disturbing the curtains as little as possible.
8	Cleans hands with alcohol hand rub, or washes with soap and water and dries with paper towels following WHO guidelines.
9	Dons a disposable plastic apron.
10	Opens the outer cover of the sterile pack and, once verified that the pack is the correct way up, slides the contents, without touching them, onto the top shelf of the trolley (or suitable equivalent).
11	Cleans hands with alcohol hand rub.
12	Opens the sterile field using only the corners of the paper.
13	Opens any other packs, tipping their contents gently onto the centre of the sterile field. Uses alcohol wipe to clean the saline solution for 30 seconds, and allows it to dry for 30 seconds.
14	Cleans hands with alcohol hand rub and dons sterile gloves.

15	Carries out and completes the relevant procedure using an aseptic non-touch technique: • drapes sterile field around/under the wound area • dips gauze in saline solution • cleans wound in a single stroke, taking care not to over-clean the wound • applies new dressing • avoids contaminating sterile field or key parts at all times.
16	Replaces bedcovers.
17	Disposes of waste appropriately – verbalisation accepted.
18	Cleans hands with alcohol hand rub, or washes with soap and water and dries with paper towels following WHO guidelines – verbalisation accepted.
19	Checks that the child is comfortable and is able to reach the call buzzer.
20	Acts professionally throughout the procedure in accordance with NMC (2018) ‘The Code: Professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses, midwives and nursing associates’.