Educator

Professional Educator, Perioperative Certificate of Mastery (PEP COM) (6.50 CH)

0001 - Professional Educator, Perioperative Certificate of Mastery (PEP COM) (6.50 CH)

Speaker(s)

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  Dawn Whiteside, BSN, RN, CNOR

  Credentialing and Education Project Manager, CCI
  CCI, Michigan
• EJ

  Emily Jones, MSN, RN-BC, CNOR

  Senior Education Coordinator
  Inova Health System
  Falls Church, VA
• JM

  Juliana Mower, MSN RN CNS-CP CNOR

  CCI

The need to provide efficient and effective patient care has never been more acutely felt. A key person in the provision of safe patient care is the nurse educator, who assists staff in achieving a safe level of practice by providing education and developing the tools and methodology for assessing competence. The traditional “teaching” function has been expanded to include a leadership role in the facility’s organizational structure. As a result, strong facilitation and collaboration skills must be developed. In addition, the surgical services educator serves as an important role model in accessing and interpreting the most current evidence-based literature and applying it to the clinical setting.

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the key components of the nurse educator role.
• Describe the steps to perform a learning needs assessment for staff.
• Create an orientation program for perioperative nurses with varying levels of experience.
• Select optimal teaching strategies to meet diverse learning needs.
• Translate evidence into best practices in the clinical setting.
• Design evaluation tools to measure outcomes at variable points in the learning experience.
• Select techniques to facilitate collaboration as a perioperative subject matter expert with multi-disciplinary personnel.