Independent Assessment Committee Summary - Orillia Soldiers

STAFF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTSelf Assessment Competency/Skills Checklist (Peri-Operative/Anesthesia Departments):Recommendations 64-65:64. Within 3 months have reviewed and revised the Nursing Skill CompetencyChecklists/Tool for the following Peri-Operative / Anesthesia nursing roles toensure that it is fully comprehensive. The lAC feel strongly that all staff undertaketo annual review and sign off their personal checklist. The NSCC should bereviewed annually and prior to any new hire into the appropriate role/department.i. Scrub Nurse (Operating Room)ii. Circulating Nurse (Operating Room)iii. Endoscopy Unitiv. Post Op Anesthetic Care Unit (PACU)v. Pre-Assessment Clinicvi. Day Surgery/Phase II Recovery65. The Unit Competency Skills Checklists will include but not be limited to:i. Core competenciesii. Surgical subspecialties competencies(Orthopedics/ENT/Genera/Urology/etc) that nurses will work iniii. New/revised annual policies, protocols, medical directivesiv. The individual staff learning plans flow from the completion of the checklistthemselves and are to be supported by the mentorship program andeducation as required66. All new hires to the Peri-anesthesia/operative program must demonstrate therequired knowledge base and associated competencies using a range ofevaluation methods prior to commencement of autonomous practice.PATIENT EXPERIENCERecommendation 67: Need to frame the perioperative experience from the patientperspectiveRecommendation 68: Create opportunities for nurses to job shadow in other areasRecommendation 69: Increase the awareness of the individual units within theperioperative services to the overall patient care experience by creatingopportunities for nurses to job shadow in other areasRecommendation 70: Standardized pre and post-operative patient informationPart IV SUMMARY and CONCLUSIONSThe lAC encourages the Hospital and the Association to work together to achieve theserecommendations, and to make effective use of data to evaluate their progress andleverage the ability to learn and adjust as appropriate along the way. “The lAC stronglybelieves that the process of implementing these recommendations will have a verypositive impact on the relationship between the Hospital and the RN staff of both the Perioperative Services which will have a cascading effect of improving the quality of thepatient care, nursing workload, and the RN staff working environment.”12