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Goals and Learning Outcomes

Pressure injury affects more than 2.5 million hospitalized patients each year in the U.S. (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [AHRQ], n.d.). In the OR, management of a patient’s skin integrity is a challenge. This course provides nurses and surgical technologists (STs) with education on the factors and considerations associated with pressure injuries, and best practices for protecting skin integrity in the OR. 

The goal of this course is to provide nurses and STs with best practices for maintaining skin integrity in the OR.


After taking this course, you should be able to:

  • Describe intraoperative skin integrity within a model of patient care outcomes.
  • Discuss intraoperative skin integrity in relation to the position of a surgical patient.
  • Discuss managing skin integrity in relation to the intraoperative care team.
  • Describe intraoperative skin integrity within a model of patient care outcomes
  • Discuss intraoperative skin integrity in relation to the position of a surgical patient
  • Discuss managing skin integrity in relation to the intraoperative care team
  • Describe intraoperative skin integrity within a model of patient care outcomes.
  • Identify patient-specific risk factors and considerations for preventing pressure injuries during surgery.
  • Discuss intraoperative techniques for surgical positioning to reduce the risk for intraoperative pressure injuries and skin breakdown.

Course Termination Date: Not yet determined

Course Originally Released On: 10/01/22

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Accreditation Information

NURSES

In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

 

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Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, Kansas State Board of Nursing, Kentucky Board of Nursing, Michigan Board of Nursing, Mississippi Board of Nursing, New Hampshire Board of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, North Dakota Board of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Registered Nurses

 

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Disclosures

None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.