Perioperative Clinical 3: Integrated Perioperative Nursing Practice NSPO 7750

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:

• Effectively and consistently combine the circulating and scrub nurse roles to enact the full scope of entry-level perioperative nursing practice.
• Organize core entry-level activities in the scrub and circulating roles for patients undergoing common, less complex surgery.
• Enact beginning leadership strategies to promote and advocate for safe and ethical patient care.
• Implement current ORNAC Standards of Care and relevant theory.
• Apply systematic inquiry skills to diverse sources of information in order to identify potential and actual problems related to the patient and procedure.
• Use a practice framework to gather information in an organized and systematic manner.
• Enact a plan for individualized perioperative patient care using a clinical decision-making framework.
• Communicate with team members in a timely and systematic manner.
• Engage in independent and collaborative clinical decision-making activities.
• Demonstrate correct aseptic technique when preparing, monitoring, and maintaining the sterile field.
• Apply surgical conscience to patient care.
• Enact perioperative nursing activities to protect self, patient, and team members from risks and hazards encountered in the perioperative environment.

Effective as of Spring/Summer 2023

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