PERIOPERATIVE NURSING

This course aims to develop nurses’ theoretical and practical understanding of nursing care delivery in the operating theatre environment.

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Critically discuss the evolution and role of Operating Department Nursing.
Critically discuss the key principles of pre / peri / post operative nursing care.
Critically discuss contemporary issues in Operating Department Nursing.
Debate issues relating to safety and quality improvement in the Operating Department.
Debate issues related to the provision of healthcare as part of an interdisciplinary team.

Nalwanga Asaliah
Tutor at Masaka School of Comprehensive Nursing, Uganda with a Diploma in Comprehensive Nursing and Bachelors in Medical Education.
Lucky Mhango
Lecturer at Department of Nursing and Midwifery, Mzuzu University, Malawi. He has a Master of Science in Nursing degree obtained from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa (2001); a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree (1994), Diploma in Nursing (1988) and University Certificate in Midwifery (1989) obtained from the University of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing. He also has a Certificate in Operating Theatre Nursing and Intensive Care obtained from Okayama University Hospital (1992, Japan). He has worked in the Ministry of Health and Kamuzu College of Nursing before joining Mzuzu University in 2006.
Dr. Martin Eichelberger
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Children’s National Medical Center; Founder, President, & CEO, Triaj Inc.
Dr. Martin Eichelberger
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Children’s National Medical Center; Founder, President, & CEO, Triaj Inc.
Taweni Chiumia
Senior Nursing Officer at Ministry Of Health Malawi with experience in emergency nursing, theatre nursing, nursing research, nursing management and part time teaching as well as theatre and burn care.
Michelle Cullinane
RGN, ENB 183, BNS, MSc Nursing, PGDip HPE, FFNMRCSI) works as a CNM 11 in the Theatre Department CHI at Crumlin, Dublin. Michelle has over 30 years’ experience working in Operating Theatre departments in Ireland, UK and Australia. She was responsible for the development of the Post Graduate Diploma in peri-operative children’s nursing in conjunction with RCSI in 2009. As the needs of the service grew the programme was adapted and developed to meet these needs which included the development of a specialised pain module. She believes the role of the perioperative nurse is undergoing constant change and it is essential to adapt to the requirements in order to maintain professional standards. This cannot be achieved without an extensive knowledge base and practical skills. Perioperative nurses are required to work in a variety of specialties and with a range of patients from neonates to adults in a multidisciplinary setting and must have the clinical competencies to deliver high quality effective care. Michelle Undertook a Post Graduate Diploma in Health Profession Education with RCSI in 2019 to support her role in education. She remained in this role until 2019 and returned to a Clinical post.
Silas Kangogo
Silas Kangogo is a Registered Nurse and Perioperative nursing Lecturer at Moi teaching and Referral Hospital College of Medicine in Kenya with over 24 years experience as a nurse and 14 years working in the operating room. He holds a bachelor's degree in Nursing from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (2018), a diploma in community Health nursing from Kenya Medical Training College (1999) and a Higher diploma in Perioperative Nursing from Kenyatta National Hospital (2009).
Melitah Rasweswe
Melitah Rasweswe currently works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Nursing Science, University of Limpopo, South Africa. Melitah does research on Indigenous Knowledge, Women's Health, Peri-operative Theater. She is passionate about decolonizing research process, especially with the vulnerable groups by using innovate research methods and techniques such as Photo voice and Lekgotla discussion
Priscar Sakala-Mukonka
Priscar Sakala-Mukonka is the Head for the Lusaka College of Nursing and Midwifery at the University Teaching Hospitals in Lusaka, Zambia. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing, Master’s Degree in Public Health and Bachelor’s degree in Nursing - from the University of Zambia and a Diploma in Nursing from the Lusaka School of Nursing.
Yona Mumba
Lecturer at the Lusaka College of Nursing and Midwifery (LUCON) in Zambia.
Maceline Mukwamba
Nurse Educator in Zimbabwe (Critical Care Courses: Intensive care, Coronary, Theatre, Anaesthesia)
Dolorence Wakida
Dolorence Wakida is a nurse educator, mentor, and leader in Uganda. She currently serves as the executive corporate director of a consultancy firm that supports health training institutions in Uganda. Dolorence has been an institutional health administrator and manager for more than 30 years. She has implemented multiple international surveys, studies, and initiatives on nurse education, the nursing labor market, and nursing recruitment. She chairs the Faculty of Education at the East, Central and Southern African College of Nursing (ECSACON) and serves on the national central executive committee of Nursing Now.
Rosemary Clerkin
MSc in Nursing, H Dip in Paediatric Periop. Nursing, PGDip in Health Professions Education, RSCN, RGN, RNT, FFNMRCSI. Rosemary has been a qualified Paediatric Nurse for 24 years. Her initial role as Clinical Nurse Facilitator was to lead the development of the anaesthetic nurse service. This 24/7 service was achieved in 12 months. Presently, Rosemary is working with the Nurse Practice Development Unit as a Clinical Placement Coordinator supporting nursing students. This role involves working closely with the University College Dublin. Rosemary obtained the ‘RCSI Nursing Education Excellence Award’ in 2008 and in 2020 achieved the Fellowship of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in RCSI, in recognition of outstanding work and exceptional leadership in her profession.
Theresa Michelle Cassar-Gheiti
Michelle is currently on sabbatical from her role in management in the theatre department of the National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh, Dublin. Prior to this role, Michelle worked on the elective orthopaedic wards in Cappagh, the trauma orthopaedic wards and acute medical wards in Sligo University Hospital. Michelle undertook a postgraduate diploma in orthopaedics with the RCSI and Cappagh (2009-2010). She holds a BSc in general nursing from NUIG and St Angelas College, Sligo. She also holds an MSc (Advanced leadership) and the Fellowship of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI (FFNMRCSI). She is also a registered general nurse.
Ndapeua Shifiona
Ndapeua Shifiona- retired Registered Advanced Psychiatric Nurse, and Nurse Educator who has more than 30 years teaching experiences in psychiatric nursing. She is also a holder of a Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmacotherapy. Currently, Ndapeua is holding a position of a Clinical Preceptor for Mental Health undergraduate students, involved in clinical teaching and supervising undergraduate mental health nursing students at the University of Namibia. While on full-time services with the University of Namibia, she served in the Leadership position as a divisional head at the School of Nursing.
Ruth Wahila
Lecturer at School of Nursing Sciences, University of Zambia, PhD Clinical Nursing (UNZA), MScN (UNZA), BScN (UNZA), Research Interests: Clinical nursing
Valerie Brueton
PhD is a registered general nurse, midwife, and demographer. She has qualifications in teaching and assessing in clinical practice (ENB 998) and theatre and anaesthetic nursing (ENB 182). Valerie has extensive clinical expertise in theatre nursing.
Gugulethu Matshazi
Clinical Nurse Manager II Endoscopy Capsule, Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin, Dublin
Oluwatosin Mabadeje
Oluwatosin Mabadeje - qualified as a Nurse at the Gwagwalada Teaching Hospital-Abuja, Nigeria; later obtaining a post-graduate degree in Perioperative Nursing at the University Teaching Hospital, Benin (Edo State, Nigeria). She was also part of the term who performed the first major successful reconstructive surgery of separation of Siamese twin in National Hospital Abuja, Nigeria. Her career journey continued at the Munster Technological University, Tralee - County Kerry, Ireland, where she obtained a BSc in Nursing after a 1-year Top-up programme in 2021 and recently completed a master’s degree programme in Nursing.
Mary Mcglynn
Cardiac Clinical Nurse Facilitator – Operating Theatre, Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin.
Mgoo Ibrahim
Mgoo Ibrahim - has served as Vice President of Tanzania National Nurses Association (TANNA) for two terms from October 2016 to October, 2022. He obtained a Master of Bioethics (MBE) from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) from 2019 to 2021, Bachelor of Science in Nursing Education (BSc NE) from Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences (CUHAS) from 2014 to 2018, and Ordinary Diploma in Nursing from Bugando School of Nursing between 2008 and 2011 both in Tanzania. He has worked at Emergency Medicine for ten years from 2012 to 2022, then at Care and Treatment Clinic (CTC) in Bugando Medical Centre (BMC), the Second largest Teaching and Consultant Hospital in Tanzania.
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ECSACONM

The East, Central, and Southern Africa College of Nursing and Midwifery (ECSACONM) is the professional body for nurses and midwives in the ECSA Region. It is a technical arm of ECSA Health Community whose aim is to strengthen nursing and midwifery education, practice, research, leadership and management for Professional Excellence and the improvement of the quality of communities in the region.

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Founded as the national training body for surgery in Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has been at the forefront of healthcare education since its establishment in 1784. Today, RCSI is an innovative, world-leading international health sciences university. Our mission is to educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health.

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Perioperative Nursing E-Learning Foundational Programme (PeN Programme)

What's in this course?

This course aims to develop nurses’ theoretical and practical understanding of nursing care delivery in the operating theatre environment.

Designed for perioperative nurses

This course has been designed to train in-service perioperative nurses as well as pre-service trainees.

Timing

Thirty 1-hour modules

Varied activities

Interactive presentations, assessments, videos etc.

Level

Basic

Who is the programme for?

The Programme is designed to support continuing professional development of in-service perioperative nurses but also to provide foundational knowledge & skills in operating department nursing for pre-service trainees.

It will provide learners with up-to-date, evidenced based knowledge to critically develop nurses’ theoretical and practical understanding of nursing care delivery in the operating theatre environment.

It also aims to support registered nurses in enhancing their confidence, skills and competences, with regard to the provision of nursing care to patients in the operating theatre environment.

What do you gain?

On successful completion of the Programme you will be able to:

Critically discuss the evolution and role of Operating Department Nursing.
Critically discuss the key principles of pre / peri / post operative nursing care.
Critically discuss contemporary issues in Operating Department Nursing.
Debate issues relating to safety and quality improvement in the Operating Department.
Debate issues related to the provision of healthcare as part of an interdisciplinary team.

Programme delivery

This Programme will be delivered through 30 engaging self-guided e-learning modules which include formative assessment and promote active learning.

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ECSACONM

The East, Central, and Southern Africa College of Nursing and Midwifery (ECSACONM) is the professional body for nurses and midwives in the ECSA Region. It is a technical arm of ECSA Health Community whose aim is to strengthen nursing and midwifery education, practice, research, leadership and management for Professional Excellence and the improvement of the quality of communities in the region.

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RCSI

Founded as the national training body for surgery in Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland has been at the forefront of healthcare education since its establishment in 1784. Today, RCSI is an innovative, world-leading international health sciences university. Our mission is to educate, nurture and discover for the benefit of human health.

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Professor Emmanuel Malabo Makasa is a Global Health/Global Surgery Consultant, an Academician, a Researcher and an experianced Clinician. He is the founding Executive Director of the Southern Africa Development Community’s University of Witwatersrand based regional-hub and collaboration Centre for Surgical Healthcare Improvement (WITSSURG) and its spoke, the Centre for Surgical Hdealthcare Research (CSHR) in the Republic of Zambia. He chairs SADC’s Technical Experts Working Group on surgical healthcare, the Partnerships Subcommittee of the Pan-African Surgical Health Forum (PASHeF) and he is the current Secretary General of the International Federation of Surgical Colleges (IFSC). Professor Makasa is a member of the Medical Education and Research Board of the Zambia Medical Association (ZMA MERB), he is a committee member of the Zambia Orthopaedics and Trauma Association (ZOTA) and he also on the board of Trustee for the Lusaka Orthopaedics Research and Education Trust (LORET), Community Without Boarders – Zambian Chapter and Africa Directions (AD).

Professor Emmanuel M Makasa has extensive experience in global health diplomacy, in regional and national surgical (peri-operative) health policy formulation and implementation and he has worked as a senior health systems manager, as honourary lecturer and as a specialist clinician in orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery. He is passionate about improving surgical healthcare in LMIC and has a track record of mobilising and coordinating multiple state and none-state actor stakeholders and partners within the United Nations Systems, in the Global Health/Global Surgery community, health professional groups and within clinical care around surgical systems and service delivery improvement. He has presented on and he has published on safe, timely, equitable, appropriate and affordable universal access to surgical (peri-operative) healthcare in Africa and beyond.

John G. Meara is the Kletjian Professor of Global Surgery, Director of the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, and Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Meara serves as the Plastic Surgeon-in-Chief of the Department of Plastic & Oral Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. He was Co-Chair for the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and was a commissioner on the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era and the Lancet Oncology Commission. In 2008 he created the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship program. He is also interested in value-based health care and implementation science research, including time driven activity-based cost research and outcomes research. Dr. Meara has led several ICHOM projects focusing on outcomes reporting and international benchmarking.

Dr. Meara's interests and innovation activities lie in the areas of craniofacial anomalies, cleft lip and cleft palate, but he has a particular interest in augmenting the delivery of quality surgical and anesthesia care in low-resource settings through long term capacity building. He is involved in multiple global surgery projects looking at the burden of surgical disease, the surgical capacity and health systems building in low-resource environments, surgical education and the economic impact of untreated surgical disease. He is also interested in value based health care and implementation science research, including time driven activity based cost research and outcomes research. Dr. Meara has led several ICHOM projects focusing on outcomes reporting and international benchmarking. Since 2008, he has directed the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship program in collaboration with Partners In Health. Its purpose is to strengthen global surgical systems through a combination of research, advocacy, and implementation science as well as train leaders who will further promote surgical care, education, and research pertinent to global surgery.

Dr. Atun is Professor of Global Health Systems at Harvard University and the Faculty Chair of the Harvard Ministerial Leadership Program. In 2008-12 he served as a member of the Executive Management Team of the Global Fund as Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation where he chaired the panel that oversaw annual investments of ~US$4 billion each year.

In 2006-2013 Dr. Atun was a Professor of International Health Management at Imperial College London, where he led the Centre for Health Management and was involved as founder, adviser and investor in biotech and health technology companies. He is a visiting professor at University of Kyoto, Japan.

Professor Atun’s research focuses on health system transformation, and innovation. He has published more than 350 papers in leading journals such as NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Academy of Management Journal, Lancet Oncology, Lancet Global Health and Science Translational Medicine.

Prof Atun has advised more than 30 governments on health policy, strategy and health system reform, and has consulted for the World Bank, WHO and leading organizations such as Medtronic, Merck & Co, Novartis, Hoffman-La Roche. In 2019-20 he was a senior advisor to the G20 Presidency.

Professor Atun served as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine Committee on Health Systems. He also served on the Advisory Boards of WHO Research Centre for Health Development in Japan and the Norwegian Research Council’s Programme for Global Health Research. He Chaired the STOP TB Partnership Coordinating Board in 2009-2011, and was as a member of the UK Medical Research Council’s Global Health Group. He is a member of the Longitude Prize Committee – the largest science prize in the world.

Professor Atun studied medicine at University of London as a Commonwealth Scholar and subsequently completed his postgraduate training in family medicine and public health. He obtained a Masters in Business Administration at University of London and Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Faculty of Public Health, and the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Professor Atun was appointed President of the GSF Foundation Board in October 2021.

Professor Mark G. Shrime, MD, MPH, PhD, FACS previously served as the O’Brien Chair of Global Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, as the founder and Director of the Center for Global Surgery Evaluation at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and as Research Director for the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard.

He is the author of seminal papers on the global burden of surgical disease, the financial burden facing surgical patients, and the number of people who cannot access safe surgery worldwide. He served as a co-author on the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.

Dr. Shrime graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1996 with a BA in molecular biology. He received his MD from the University of Texas in 2001, after taking a year to teach organic chemistry in Singapore. Medical school was followed by a residency in otolaryngology at the joint Columbia/Cornell program in Manhattan, followed, in turn, by a fellowship in head and neck surgical oncology at the University of Toronto in 2007. He completed a second fellowship in microvascular reconstructive surgery, also at the University of Toronto, in 2008. He was the first to identify a novel independent prognostic indicator in head and neck cancer.

To date, he has worked and taught in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Benin, Togo, Congo, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Cameroon, and Madagascar. In May, 2011, he graduated with an MPH in global health from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was a finalist for both the Albert Schweitzer award and the HSPH Student Recognition award, and in May, 2015, he received his PhD in health policy from Harvard University, with a concentration in decision science.

His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Iris O’Brien Foundation, the Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation, an anonymous donation to the Center for Global Surgery Evaluation, the GE Foundation’s Safe Surgery 2020 project and the Steven C. and Carmella Kletjian Foundation.

Barnabas Alayande, MBBS, PgDTh, MBA, FMCS (General Surgery) is a general surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery with the University of Global Health Equity. He is passionate about equity-based solutions for global surgical care, and works to achieve surgical access for underserved areas within the Center for Equity in Global Surgery through surgical education, research, innovation and improvisation for Low and Middle-Income Countries with an emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa.

He has an academic background in Medicine and Surgery, Theology, and Business, and has specialty training in general surgery with interests in trauma care, and human factors. He has carried out pilot randomized control trial dissertations in thyroid surgery, and benign anorectal haemorrhoid treatments for variable resource settings. Following medical training at a WHO collaborating center for community-based education and service, and a surgically oriented internship in Southwest Nigeria, he served in the South East as a National Youth Service Corps Camp Medical Director, Community Health Team Chair leading a team of volunteer medics serving 4.9 million people of Imo State, and a medical officer covering 19 local government health facilities. He helped start an innovative private practice in North-Central Nigeria, and then transitioned into his surgical residency with training by the West African College of Surgeons and the National Postgraduate Medical College. He graduated from the National Postgraduate Medical College, and subsequently helped establish surgical systems for underserved HIV/AIDS patients in Northern Nigeria, as a volunteer surgeon with the Faith Alive Foundation. He completed a 2-year Global Surgery fellowship with the Harvard Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, serving as chief research fellow, before transferring into a faculty role at the UGHE. He is also a Fogarty Global Health Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Dr. Barnabas has contributed to strategic surgical curriculum development for Rwanda, the design of non-technical skills for surgery curriculum for the Nigerian variable resource context, trauma care evaluation and training for the West African sub-region, surgical educational research in the East, Central and Southern Africa region, and the strategic implementation of UGHE’s regional Center for Equity in Global Surgery. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center, The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, Association for Academic Surgery, The UGHE Dean’s Grant. He is the recipient of awards and scholastic honors including the Baxiram S. and Kankuben B. Gelot Community Surgeons Travel Award, poster award from the Trauma Association of Canada, the HBNU Fogarty Global Health Fellowship, the Faculty of Rural Remote and Humanitarian Health Care Fellowship Award, the Association for Academic Surgery Global Surgery Research Grant, the Duro Soleye Annual prize, nomination for the Dr Hamza Olayinka Braimah academic prize, the Shell University Scholarship Award, and the Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited Scholarship Awards. Dr Barnabas has contributed numerous presentations, abstracts, and publications within the Global Surgery space, with work in surgical ethics and equity, disparities in access to trauma care, grassroots advocacy, conference equity, surgical quality, surgical history, COVID and surgical care, surgical improvisation, surgical systems strengthening, baselining of surgical access, non-technical skills in surgery, and machine learning and surgery, among others.

He is a member of the Association for Academic Surgery Global Affairs Committee, the West African College of Surgeons, and the Nigerian Medical Association, a fellow with the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, an international associate fellow with the American College of Surgeons, and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh Faculty of Rural, Remote and Humanitarian Healthcare.