Preoperative Assessment Foundation Courses 2025

For nurses & AHPs working in Preoperative Assessment

Why attend our face-to-face Foundation Courses?

• Small group teaching providing interactive and hands-on learning, with real-time feedback
• Networking and shared learning with peers
• Practical application and consolidation of learning
• Delivered by a highly experienced education faculty
• Real-time, tailored guidance and support from education faculty
• Suitable for ODPs, all band 5 or 6 nurses working in the field of POA, independent or NHS sectors
• Suitable for band 7 or 8a pharmacists developing foundation knowledge in POA
  

• Key Topics
• Fundamentals of pre-operative assessment
• History taking and risk assessment
• Physical examination
• Interpretation of pre-operative blood tests and investigations
• Management of high-risk surgical patients
• Medication management
  

"Teachers were incredibly supportive, skilled explaining different challenges. Their ability to breakdown the topics and make us understand the complexity of the cases."

"I will strongly recommend to my clinical lead that all staff attend this course and I very much hope to attend the advanced course. Thank you all so much!"

"Thank you for conducting such preoperative courses, which cover every aspects of pre-op , I am also looking forward to enrolling for the masters course in pre-op."

"The content and delivery were exceptional. The lecturers were quite clearly passionate about the topic and it was wonderful to be brought together with so many like-minded people"