Course overview
This course provides the clinician with the clinically-focused skills and knowledge to function at a baseline perioperative nurse level within the perioperative environment. The course follows a patient's experience through their perioperative pathway and analyses the common phases along this journey. Topics presented cover the knowledge and skills required during preoperative, intraoperative and post anaesthesia recovery phases of care. There is a strong focus on the skills acquirement within the student's clinical environment. Following this course the clinician will be able to function at a base level within the areas of perioperative nursing.
Course learning outcomes
- Define perioperative nursing delivery parameters
- Practice collaborative professional dialogue, including discussion ofcurrent issues in domestic and global paradigms.
- Explore applications of National Standards to perioperative nursing
- Examine the various roles and responsibilities of perioperative nurses, with specific reference to operating and procedure room contexts
- Describe the patient perioperative journey and how perioperative nurses support it
- Describe specific practice considerations in surgical interventions including haemostasis, pharmacology and wound care
- Devise and construct peer education materials
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