Course Code: REL-ACU-0-PSO
Hours: 1
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2025
Learning Objectives:
Determine why evidence-based practice matters and how it can be used to reduce common perioperative errors, such as surgical site infections; wrong-site, wrong-side, or wrong-person surgery; retained surgical items; and missing or mislabeled specimens.
Recall the risk factors and interventions for the prevention of hypothermia, the signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia, and the physiologic parameters of hyperglycemia.
Identify the components of an effective perioperative handover.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: The Use of Evidence-Based Practice in the OR
Evidence-Based Practice
National and Global Safety Guidelines and Practice Standards
Reducing Common Perioperative Errors Using EBP
Section 3: Preventing Hypothermia
Risk Factors and Causes
Nursing Across the Spectrum of Care
Section 4: Keeping Blood Glucose Under Control
Hyperglycemia
Hypoglycemia
Perioperative Management of the Diabetic Patient
Section 5: Improving Communication in the Perioperative Setting
Handover Communication
Section 6: Clinical Vignette
Waiting for Surgery
Section 7: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributors
Resources
ReferencesInstructor: Rhiannon Winsor, Ed.D., MBA, CST, CRCST
Rhiannon Winsor is a subject matter expert in the field of surgical technology and adult education. She has an associate degree in Surgical Technology, a bachelor’s degree in business and marketing, a master’s degree in business administration (MBA), and a doctorate in Education with an emphasis on adult teaching and learning. She is a certified surgical technologist (CST) and a certified registered central sterile technician (CRCST). She has 27 years of experience in the field of surgical technology, during which 13 of those years have been spent teaching and managing surgical technology programs. She has working knowledge in the areas of orthopedics, general, obstetrics, gynecology, plastics, podiatry, sports medicine, neurology, genitourinary, peripheral vascular, ENT, maxillofacial, and laparoscopic surgery. She has also collaborated with several organizations to develop training programs in surgical technology, communication, compliance, cultural competency, medical terminology, and care management.
Writer: Andrea Powell, RN, BSN
Andrea Powell, RN, BSN is a SME writer for Relias with a focus on acute care. She has over 11 years of clinical nursing experience, spanning across multiple nursing specialties. Her primary focus has been in critical care, with an affinity to surgical nursing. She also has experience in intraoperative nursing and post-anesthesia care. Andrea has served as a clinical team leader, preceptor and charge nurse to colleagues throughout her nursing career. She has a passion for the education of healthcare professionals and an aspiration for excellence in the healthcare delivery system.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Nursing Personnel; Surgical Personnel; in the following settings: Hospitals: Acute.
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Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.