New face-to-face course dates will be released soon. Please register your interest by contacting us. If you'd like a customised course for your workplace please let us know.
This course is both a refresher on essential concepts & provides those early in their Perioperative Nursing career with greater insight into their clinical practice. It will also be of value to any nurse who desires to know more about the procedures that their patients are about to undergo or have undergone whilst in the operating room.
The program will help nurses gain the knowledge & difficult airway management techniques required in an Perioperative environment. This course will also cover many aspects of ANZCA PS08.
Topics will include: The Role of the Perianaesthesia Nurse, The Role of the Circulating and Instrument or scrub nurse, Pharmacology used in Anaesthesia & Post-Anaesthesia Care, Monitoring, Muscle Relaxants & Reversal, Common Respiratory Complications, Acute Pain Management, Emergencies in the Perioperative Environment, Patient Assessment in the Recovery Room, Caring for the Patient having Regional Anaesthesia, Difficult Airway Management & Discharge Criteria.