Core Skills: Microsurgical Skills for Theatre Nurses

Workshop

The Core Skills: Microsurgical Skills for Theatre Nurses workshop offers nurses the opportunity to further their knowledge and gain valuable hands-on practical skills in microsurgery. Nurses assisting with Plastics, ENT, eye surgeries and neurosurgeries may find this workshop particularly relevant.

Suitable for: Theatre Nurses and Nurses Assisting on Plastics, ENT, Eye Surgeries and Neurosurgeries

Dates

Sold out (nurse)
Thursday, 14 August 2025

About

This highly practical workshop emphasises a team based approach to microsurgical procedures and aims to enhance participant knowledge and skills in setting up for microsurgical cases and anticipating the procedural requirements of the surgeon. It includes optimising situation awareness and instrumentation handling skills using synthetic models.

Practical sessions involve participants working in pairs or independently on a range of microsurgical suture exercises which replicate the surgeon’s clinical requirements.  The workshop is designed to increase nurses’ knowledge of the microscope, instruments and the sutures used during microsurgical procedures.  Microvascular suturing skills will be honed on synthetic and animal tissue models.

Workshop Content

Presentations:

  • Set-up and instrumentation
  • Technical tips and non-technical skills
  • The microscope: trouble-shooting
  • Sutures
  • Plastics, ENT, eye surgery and neurosurgery set ups and procedures, and key operative points

Practical Sessions:

  • Understanding and handling the instruments
  • Microscopes and sutures in-depth
  • Dealing with problems
  • Stitching and assisting using microsutures
  • Practical suturing exercises using animal tissue
  • Knot tying
  • Hands-on practise on a workshop model
  • Operating under the microscope -
    • ergonomics
    • finding the bundle
    • dissecting out vessel and tendon

 

Workshop Inclusions

  • Synthetic models
  • Didactic sessions
  • All meals and refreshments
  • Limited places to maximise practical learning time

 

Accreditation

Nurses may claim 7 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points. This educational activity will earn participants a Certificate of Completion for their CPD Portfolio.

 

2025 Fee

WA Nurse: $140
Non-WA Nurse: $160 

 

COVID-19 Information for Workshop Participants

CTEC Terms & Conditions

 

Workshop content, date and convenors may be subject to change or cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances.

 

Testimonials

"One of the best day courses I have attended."
"(The faculty) were very supportive and knowledgeable but we also had lots of fun."
"A great facility and great resources with adequate time to complete practical tasks. "
"I thoroughly enjoyed the practical aspects, learning how to suture was great. "
"A very well planned and executed workshop."
- 2024 Workshop Participants

Venue

CTEC
The University of Western Australia
Entrance No.2
Hackett Drive, Crawley
Perth, Western Australia

For more information contact

John Linehan
Senior Course Coordinator
T +61 8 6488 8049
E john.linehan@uwa.edu.au
 

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