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PubMed1999

Enhancing perioperative nursing practice: developing a course for the surgeon's assistant.

This article describes the development of a new English National Board (ENB) course for nurses wishing to adopt the role of the surgeon's assistant. The original request for a course of this nature came from the clinicians working in hospitals in the Manchester area, including not only theatre nurses and managers but also surgeons and individuals already practising as surgeon's assistants. This course has been designed with the support of the nursing and medical staff in local trusts, who have been widely consulted. It was developed collaboratively with nurse educationalists, in order to standardise training and education for nurses in practice who wished to adopt this expanding role.

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PubMed1999

Manual handling in the operating theatre.

Safer transfer practices are needed in operating theatres. An observational study on manual handling in an operating department led to improvements in transfer practice. Staff should have easy access to the appropriate handling aids.

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The role of the OR nurse.

1. Cyprus health policies and strategies emphasize the value of the individual in a caring family and community framework, with the implication that health is the responsibility of the whole country and its citizens. 2. Operating room nursing has undergone many changes in the past few years, such as the introduction of the nursing process together with the team concept. 3. Many aspects of nursing care in operating theaters have improved greatly, but we face the future with aspirations for additional improvement.

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PubMed1990

Whole-brain learning. Preparing nurses for future challenges.

In the 1960s, when the design of nursing curricula moved away from the medical model and toward a model based on nursing concepts, formal rotation to the operating room was deleted from many baccalaureate programs. Nurse educators, grappling with a seriously overcrowded curriculum, argued that when a conceptual approach is used, students do not necessarily need extensive experience in nursing specialty areas, such as operating room nursing. In contrast, operating room nurses argued that diminishing the operating room experience had a negative impact on the preparation of students for the specialty. They contended that without meaningful learning experiences in the operating room, students would miss unique and valuable experiences in the operating room, and there would be less likelihood that new graduates would select this specialty. The specialty of perioperative nursing has responded to major changes in the health care industry and has expanded and clarified its professional scope. Today, the perioperative continuum provides a unique opportunity for teaching many fundamental concepts and skills of nursing practice. For example, perioperative nursing provides an opportunity for teaching concepts and principles of adaptation, safety, asepsis, patient and family teaching, teamwork, and the continuity of care. The perioperative nursing arena offers unique opportunities for nursing students to learn key concepts, issues, and skills that are relevant to many nursing practice areas. The whole-brain approach described in this article provides a model for the reevaluation and revitalization of perioperative nursing in the baccalaureate nursing curriculum.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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