LPN Perioperative Clinical 2: Implementing the Circulating Nurse Role NSPO 7540

Learning Outcomes

As a healthcare practitioner, you are expected to follow professional standards of practice throughout all SN programs and courses. In this course, you will have opportunities to use the processes of critical thinking, systematic inquiry, communication, collaboration, leadership, professionalism, and clinical decision-making. Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

Upon successful completion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Apply the BCCNM LPN Scope of Practice to care for perioperative patients with stable and predictable states of health in collaboration with a registered nurse.
• Implement current ORNAC Standards of Care and relevant theory in the circulating role.
• Organize and prioritize core entry-level activities in the circulating role for stable and non-complex patients undergoing non-complex surgery.
• Use a practice framework to gather information in an organized and systematic manner through patient assessment, conversational interview, and the preoperative checklist.
• Collect various sources of information to identify potential and actual patient and procedure problems and consult with team members to determine when patient's acuity level is beyond LPN's Scope of Practice
• Recognize when to communicate assessment findings in a timely, comprehensive, and systematic manner to team members.
• Use appropriate and effective communication techniques with patients, families, and team members.
• Correctly complete perioperative documentation.
• Practice surgical conscience to patient care in the circulating role.
• Ensure safe, competent and ethical care with patients and families.
• Advocate for patients in the circulating role.
• Protect self, patient and team members from risks and hazards encountered in the perioperative environment.
• Independently implement a plan for individualized patient-centered care in the circulating role using a clinical decision-making framework.
• Demonstrate collaboration with a Registered Nurse when plan of care is beyond LPN Scope of Practice.
• Make sound clinical decisions related to patient assessment and admission, anesthesia induction and emergence, surgical intervention and the sterile environment, both independently and collaboratively when necessary.
• Implement reflective practice through self-assessments and journal reflections.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023

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