Study Guide

Objective

Students
• can explain the specificities of nursing a perioperative patient and competence requirements of nurses
• know how to instruct patients in the different phases of perioperative care
• can plan and execute the care of perioperative patients in various working environments
• are familiar with the prevention of infections and aseptic operations in a perioperative nursing environment
• can describe the factors affecting patient and equipment safety
• can assess their own expertise and highlight development targets
• can apply evidence-based activities in the nursing of perioperative patients

Content

• the specificities of pre-, intra- and postoperative patient care, special competence requirements of nurses
• pre-, intra- and postoperative patient care
• data systems, recording, reporting
• prevention of infections and asepsis
• patient and equipment safety
• multiprofessional collaboration
• evidence-based nursing in perioperative nursing