Perioperative Nursing (4cr)

Objective

Students will
• Understand the treatment path for perioperative patients and know how to describe the perioperative
treatment process of a perioperative patient
• Learn the principles of asepsis and know how to apply the methods and principles of infection prevention in a surgical ward
• Be able to work as a part of a multiprofessional surgical and anaesthetic team at the different phases of perioperative nursing and know the essential factors that contribute to successful team work
• Become proficient in the basic principles and values of surgical and anaesthetic nursing and learn to base their actions on the latest research information
• Understand the special features of pharmacotherapy and fluid therapy for perioperative patients and know how to apply them in patient care
• Become familiar with the most common anaesthetic and analgesic methods
• Know how to prepare patients for anaesthesia and an operation
• Know how to use common patient testing, examination, monitoring and care instruments, analyse the resulting information and act accordingly
• The students will know how to report on and document the different phases of perioperative treatment
• Learn to identify the special features of counselling and support provided to perioperative patients
• Be aware of the safety risks in surgical and anaesthetic wards and know how to ensure the safety of activities
• Understand the tasks of anaesthetic nurses, circulating nurses and practise them
• Learn to perform nursing of surgical patients in a surgical ward
• Learn to observe and care for patients in the intraoperative and in the recovery room

Content

Contents

• Perioperative nursing (organization, tasks and areas of responsibility in team work, care environment)
• Ethical principles of surgical wards
• Patient and occupational safety in a surgical ward (including infection prevention, asepsis, levels of disinfection, instrument safety, reporting and documentation, use of checklists)
• Disinfection and sterilization methods in perioperative nursing
• Aseptic techniques of surgical wards
• Preoperative and intraoperative preparations in surgical and anaesthetic wards and transferring the patient to an operating room
• Care of a patient during a procedure: different roles and duties of a nurse and team work
• Maintaining the body temperature of a surgical patient
• Common treatment equipment, instruments and sutures and assisting in a surgery
• Roles and tasks of surgical teams and preparations of a surgical team before a procedure (instrument and supply collection, surgical hand disinfection, sterile clothing, preparing an operating position, disinfection of the area of operation and defining the area of operation)
• Common methods of anaesthesia , the medications used in them and the
effects and phases of these medications in the body
• Preparations for anaesthesia (collecting the medications, preparing the patient monitoring systems
and the anaesthesia workstation)
• Observation and care of patients under anaesthesia in the operating and recovery rooms
• Tasks related to ending a procedure (supply inventory and equipment maintenance)
• Pharmacotherapy and liquid therapy during anaesthesia and in the recovery room
• Transferring the patient to a recovery room, monitoring and treatment there and the criteria of transferring the patient to an inpatient ward