Course overview
This course provides the clinician with the specialty-focused skills and knowledge to function at an advanced perioperative nurse level within the perioperative environment. The course builds upon the knowledge and skills acquired along the patient's perioperative pathway and how these are applied to the numerous subspecialties of surgery and the implications on perioperative nursing practice, specifically the instrument and circulating nurse roles. The course examines and investigates the advanced knowledge and skills required to competently manage these patients. There is a strong focus on the acquisition of skills in the clinical environment. The completion of this course will enable the clinician to function at an advanced clinical level within their specialised area of perioperative nursing.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe surgical subspecialty anatomy, pathology and corresponding perioperative variances in patient care.
- Investigate a unique patient situation from a perioperative patient journey
- Explain how the nursing process applies across all perioperative practice sub-speciality settings
- Present a complex surgical procedure from within a surgical subspecialty
- Compare perioperative patient journeys across a variety of surgical sub-specialties
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 58987
Section WS01
Size 10
Available 10
Online
Class number 59398
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 29
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