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Perioperative Nurses’ Engagement With The Surgical Safety Checklist: A Focused Ethnography, Julie A. Rogers, Paul Mcleish, Jan Alderman

Journal of Perioperative Nursing

Purpose

To gain greater insight into how nurses engage with the multidisciplinary team during the surgical safety checklist process.

Participants and setting

Participants were a purposeful sample of eight operating room nurses. The study was conducted in the operating room department of a major tertiary teaching hospital in South Australia.

Methods

Phase 1 employed participant observations while phase 2 employed semi-structured interviews.

Findings

Participants supported the use of the surgical safety checklist and valued its role to enhance patient safety. Multidisciplinary team culture played a significant role in how the checklist was conducted and heavily influenced the level of nurse …

The Perioperative Nurse Surgical Assitant (Pnsa) Of The Future, Olivia Sonneborn

Journal of Perioperative Nursing

Advanced practice nurse (APN) roles have been implemented across all areas of the Australian health service and have extended into the perioperative environment in the form of the perioperative nurse surgical assistant (PNSA) or non-medical surgical assistant (NMSA). With a growing and ageing population, Australia will see an increased demand for acute care nurses. For the PNSA role to expand to meet this demand, the role requires recognition and regulation in Australia. Education programs also need to meet the increasing demand for acute care nursing and provide quality, accessible and collaborative education programs to meet the needs of all nurses …

Changing Workplace Culture: What Would It Take To Speak Up?, Sandra Millis

Journal of Perioperative Nursing

Bullying in the health care environment historically has been tolerated and, in many cases, expected. The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 has provided the necessary legislation to stimulate a move toward addressing the bullying culture within New Zealand hospitals. This article takes a reflective look at how speaking up about bullying, although difficult, is important in order to change workplace culture.

Perioperative Nurses’ Perceptions Of Cross-Training: A Qualitative Descriptive Study, Mellisa S. Platt, Tracey Coventry, Leanne Monterosso

Journal of Perioperative Nursing

Purpose: To investigate the perceptions of perioperative nurses regarding the use and impact of cross-training in the perioperative department. Participants and setting: Scrub and scout perioperative nurses (n=8) who had completed a one-day recovery room cross-training program in a large tertiary private health care organisation in Western Australia.

Method: One-to-one, semi-structured interviews of perioperative scrub–scout nurses.

Findings: The participants perceived the positive aspects of cross-training were teamwork, professional satisfaction and added value to patient care. The aspects that inhibited participants from learning or taking part in the cross-training program were staffing issues, lack of confidence and burnout.

Conclusion: Cross-training supported …

Changing The Standard Of Blood Management In Australia: An Overview, Alana Delaforce, Jed Duff, Nicholas Ralph

Journal of Perioperative Nursing

No abstract provided.

Reshaping Perioperative Nursing Practice To Get The Job Done: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study, Sharon Bingham, Kenneth Walsh, Karen Ford

Journal of Perioperative Nursing

No abstract provided.

Innovations In Postgraduate Work Integrated Learning Within The Perioperative Nursing Environment: A Western Australian Experience, Kylie Russell, Tracey Coventry

Journal of Perioperative Nursing

A key expectation from the health care industry in Australia is that nurses engaged in postgraduate specialist education need to be able to apply their extended knowledge and skills to the workplace. For this to succeed, health services need to be involved in the development of course content and learning outcomes to ensure authentic engagement. Essential to this is student participation in workplace learning that provides experience, performance feedback and reflection. This promotes graduate success to meet industry expectations.

The Graduate Diploma of Perioperative Nursing aims to develop graduates with not only the knowledge of good perioperative nursing practice but …

Factors That Predict Evidence Use By Australian Perioperative Nurses, Jed Duff, Margaret Butler, Menna Davies, Robyn Williams, Jannelle Carlile

Journal of Perioperative Nursing

Evidence-based practice has been demonstrated to positively impact patient outcomes; unfortunately, there are many factors that hinder the use of research evidence by healthcare clinicians. Our previous study reported a multisite survey assessing Australian perioperative nurses knowledge, practice, attitude, and perceived barriers to evidence use. This subsequent analysis used univariate and multivariate binary logistic regression with odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) to compare individual nurse and organisational characteristics with high evidence-basad practice (EBP) use. Two individual nurse characteristics found to be related to EBP were postgraduate qualifications (OR 1.69, 95% CI 1.07–2.6, p=0.02) and previous research experience …