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Educational Modules On Pediatric Cardiac Care For Host Nurse Training During Surgical Mission Trips: A Quality Improvement Project, Maria Arlene Gapac Lemin

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Numerous health care organizations conduct international surgical mission trips to treat pediatric patients with congenital cardiac disorders in countries unable to provide complex surgical interventions locally without support. This doctoral student’s experience on numerous mission trips provided the opportunity to evaluate the expertise of circulating and scrub nurses in host countries. Based on this assessment, a knowledge and skill gap was identified and suggested that an educational intervention might benefit host nurses. The purpose of this doctoral project was to develop evidence- and theoretically-based educational modules for local nurses to improve perioperative nursing practice in meeting the needs of their …