PERIOPERATIVE NURSING 5 ECTS PEHO
The study unit includes 1 ECTS of studies arranged in English

Objectives
Students will
• Understand the treatment path for perioperative patients
• Know how to describe the perioperative treatment process of adult patients
• 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 in multiprofessional surgical and anaesthetic teams at the different phases of perioperative nursing
• 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 procedures
• Know how to use common patient testing, examination, monitoring and care instruments, analyse the resulting information and act accordingly
• 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 surgeon’s assistants and identify the key instruments used
• Be able to perform immediate postoperative observation in the recovery room

Preclinical Training in Perioperative Nursing

Objectives



Students will

• Learn to perform nursing of surgical patients in a surgical ward

• Learn to carry out the necessary preparations for the patient’s intra-operative care

• Understand the key factors contributing to successful team work in surgical and anaesthetic wards

• Practise the tasks of anaesthetic nurses, circulating nurses and surgeon’s assistants

• Learn to use the key care equipment, supplies and instruments used in anaesthetic and surgical care

• Practise aseptic techniques in different nursing roles in a surgical ward

• Learn to observe and care for patients in the intraoperative and immediate postoperative context

• Practise documenting and reporting of perioperative nursing

• Contents:

• The operating room as an environment

• 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 nursing roles, duties and team work

• How to use the surgical team checklist

• Observation and care of patients under anaesthesia

• Common operating positions and disinfection of the area of operation

• Collecting instruments and treatment supplies

• Surgical hand disinfection, sterile clothing and defining the area of operation

• Common care equipment, devices and instruments

• Aseptic techniques of surgical wards

• Providing assistance in a surgery

• Tasks related to ending a procedure (supply inventory and equipment maintenance)

• Transferring the patient and immediate postoperative observation and care

• Pharmacotherapy and liquid therapy



Anaesthesiology and Pharmacology 1 ECTS ANFA

• 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

• Pharmacotherapy and liquid therapy during anaesthesia and in the recovery room

• Pain assessment and management