The preoperative association is proud to be working in collaboration with PPOC to support training in paediatric preoperative assessment. Please follow the link below for more details on this free training course.
The competency-based Paediatric Pre-Assessment Practitioner course is based on the APAGBI national guidance. The course enables nurses to acquire the required knowledge, experience and skills to assess children and escalate concerns as required, prior to elective surgery. The course is delivered at no cost, by a faculty of paediatric anaesthetists, specialist nurses, legal advisors, safeguarding teams, and educators. Please follow the link for individual ODN contact information
Teaching is delivered virtually via MS TEAMS over 3 days. Candidates have 6 months to complete relevant competencies and are supported and assessed by a local paediatric anaesthetist, using Benner’s ‘Novice to Expert’ scale to measure competence.
The course aims to support the delivery of safe, person-centred care, ‘making every contact count’, as well as supporting theatre efficiency through reduced cancellations and ensuring smooth running of theatre lists. If interested, please contact your local surgery in children lead nurse listed below:
South West and Thames Valley & Wessex
Gael Rolls and Charlotte Hammerton-Jackson
Email SW: swsicodn@uhbw.nhs.uk
North Thames and South Thames
Tanya O'Driscoll and Laura Snow
Email NTPN: Tanya.O'Driscoll@gosh.nhs.uk
STPN:
Laura.Snow@gstt.nhs.uk
North East, North Cumbria and Yorkshire and Humber
Jo Mulholland and Clair Scaife
Email NENC: joanne.mulholland1@nhs.net
Y+H:
tr.sicadmin@nhs.net
East of England and East Midlands
Damian Griffiths and Hannah Labrum
Email EOE: add-tr.eoesicodn@nhs.net
East Midlands:
emsicn@uhl-tr.nhs.uk
Perioperative Medicine MSc
University College London
A highly innovative, online programme which provides the advanced knowledge and understanding to provide best-evidence care to surgical patients who might be contemplating, undergoing or recovering from surgery.
This online MSc offers you the flexibility to study for between one and five years. It is suitable for doctors, including anaesthetists, surgeons and physicians, as well as specialist nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists, theatre practitioners and many other professionals engaged in the management of patients in the perioperative period.
Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine MSc, PGDip, PGCert
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
A comprehensive training programme in recent advances and key issues in the perioperative care of the surgical patient, developing skills and competencies, such as critical appraisal and research.
The online flexible course can be studied full-time or part-time over one to two years. It is suitable for healthcare professionals working to deliver care within the perioperative pathway such as nurses, doctors, and operating department nurses or assistants.
Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine MSc, PGDip, PGCert
Queen Mary University of London
A comprehensive training programme in recent advances and key issues in the perioperative care of the surgical patient, developing skills and competencies, such as critical appraisal and research.
The online flexible course can be studied full-time or part-time over one to two years.
It is suitable for healthcare professionals working to deliver care within the perioperative pathway such as nurses, doctors, and operating department nurses or assistants.
