What's in this course?
Postoperative assessment and monitoring of patients can prompt escalation of care and prevent a raft of potential surgical complications from occurring. Using a framework can guide your assessment and ensure subtle signs of deterioration are not missed.
Perioperative Nursing
- How should we assess and monitor patients postoperatively?
- How can an ABCDE approach help to recognise deterioration early?
- What warning signs should we respond to immediately?
Target Audience
This Ausmed Course is relevant to all registered nurses and other health professionals working in perioperative and general medical/surgical environments who are caring for patients after undergoing surgical interventions.
Varied activities
Videos and tests.
Duration
35 minutes
Level
Basic
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Need
Differences in the capability of individuals to identify and escalate the care of patients who develop complications after surgery is a significant factor in patient adverse outcomes. Frameworks can support postoperative assessment and monitoring to ensure all healthcare professionals can recognise and respond early to potential complications.
There is a timely need for healthcare professionals to gain new knowledge and have existing knowledge reinforced on how a standardised approach to postoperative assessment and monitoring can aid in the early detection of clinical deterioration and reduce adverse patient outcomes.
Purpose
The purpose of this Ausmed Course is to reinforce best-practice approaches to postoperative assessment and monitoring to ensure early detection of clinical deterioration in patients who have undergone a surgical intervention.
Disclosure
No conflict of interest exists for anyone in the position to control content for this activity. Wherever possible, generic or non-proprietary names of medications or products have been used.
Course instructor
Suzanne Querruel
Suzanne Querruel is an associate lecturer at Charles Sturt University and a nurse educator with a particular expertise in perianaesthesia nursing. She has taught at a wide variety of tertiary institutions, tutoring and lecturing at the Bachelor of Nursing program for Western Sydney University and coordinating the Westmead Private Hospital anaesthetic program. Suzanne is passionate about advancing the perioperative nursing field.
This course is provided by Ausmed
Ausmed is an Australian healthcare education provider that equips individuals, teams and organisations with the tools and resources they need to meaningfully impact the quality of care being provided.
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