Wednesday, March 24 2004 forward ...

Wednesday, March 24 2004

forward Wednesday, March 24, 2004, nursing pupils and faculty members from drills of nursing attended special programs just for them. The morning began with a breakfast and networking opportunity. More than 200 tribe attended. After breakfast, students and faculty members attended separate programs.

bookish man SESSIONS

Students began with a half-day didactic session in which they learned about positioning, aseptic technique, and patient safety. Terri Goodman, RN PhD spoke forward positioning. During this part of the session, observers learned about research concerning adverse issues of surgical positioning, risk factors for tissue damage during positioning, the three principally common materials used for positioning devices (ie, foam, gel linen), and the composings of a patient safety initiative.

Aseptic technique was neared by Kathleen B. Gaberson, RN PhD CNOR. Her presentation center around definitions pertinent to the topic of aseptic technique, related standards and commited practices, and principles of aseptic technique. According to Dr Gaberson, aseptic technique is based onward the premise that the source of in the greatest degree infections is outside the body--skin and hair, for example. Principles of aseptic technique that Dr Gaberson discussed included sterility--for example, tables are sterile barely at the table level, and sterile clan and items touch only sterile areas.

Speaking forward patient safety, Linda K. Groah, RN M CNOR, CNAA, FAAN, defined patient safety as freedom from unnecessary risk or harm associated with health care. She defined a medical error as a mistake, an inadvertent adventure or an unintended event in health care delivery. Her presentation focused onward several areas, including root cause analysis. When performing a stem cause analysis, three areas should be examined: organizational factors, workplace factors, and unsafe events

After the morning session, learners were given an assignment. They had to visit the exhibit floor and learn about sum of two units of four products used in caring for surgical patients: glove antimicrobial agents used for hand rub hards or patient skin preps, sterilization equipment, or technology used in patient care (ie, electrosurgical units, overhead OR lights, endoscopes, robotics). After completing the Assignment, they attended a hands-on session where they learned about electrosurgery gowning and gloving, prepping, and hand hygiene.

FACULTY SESSIONS

Faculty members attended sum of two units didactic sessions Wednesday morning. The first, "Breaking the Traditional Mold: Utilizing the Perioperative Arena for a Med/Surg Learning Experience," showed insights into how the perioperative arena can provide skills, engage academic objectives, and provide critical thinking and organizational learning opportunities for nursing students

Debra L Fawcett, RN M PhD and Julie Teague, KN spoke about in what manner educators must be creative in preparing coming time nurses and how experiences in the perioperative arena can fit into this objective. In the perioperative arena, pupils can gain skills that can be applied to other nursing parts and learn how to think critically. For example, assessing patients in the OR can be akin to triaging patients in other health care settings, and donning sterile attire teaches skill and coordination that can be used in other areas.

Susan VM Kleinbeck, RN PhD CNOR, existinged the second session for faculty members titled "Integrating the PND Into a Perioperative Clinical Setting." Dr Kleinbeck introduced participants to the Perioperative Nursing Data establish (PNDS), explaining that it is a unique collection of words that portray by actions the concepts of the perioperative nursing proces She then explained by what means the PNDS language can simplify application of the nursing proces in an OR clinical experience. It can be used, for example, to teach the basic perioperative nursing proces of patient assessment.

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