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
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
- Practical suturing exercises
- Knot tying
- Hands-on practise on a workshop model
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.
2022 Fee
WA Nurse: $135
Non-WA Nurse: $165
COVID-19 Information for Workshop Participants
Workshop content, date and convenors may be subject to change or cancellation due to unforeseen circumstances.
Testimonials
"Excellent faculty, very knowledgeable. I really enjoyed how they all went around and talked to everyone, very friendly."
"Presentations gave context to the sorts of cases we might experience involving the microscope, and hands-on tasks gave a practical appreciation for the tasks we often assist (on)."
"Gave me the opportunity to undertake microsurgery in a comfortable environment. "
- 2021 Workshop Participants
Venue
CTEC
The University of Western Australia
Entrance No.2
Hackett Drive, Crawley
Perth, Western Australia
For more information contact
Lorna Christie
Senior Course Coordinator
T +61 8 6488 8505
E lorna.christie@uwa.edu.au
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