Summary
This online course will provide you with the introductory knowledge needed to navigate the safe care of the surgical patient in an operating theatre environment and the essential knowledge and skills needed for an early career surgical NCHD.
The level this course is suitable for is early surgical practice or first-year post-internship training.
Suitable for: All surgical specialties.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course, you will have achieved the following:
- Knowledge of the operating theatre environment including scrubbing, gowning and patient preparation
- Ability to identify appropriate surgical instruments/needles/sutures for a particular surgical procedure
- Fundamentals of consent and creating an operative note
- Principles of diathermy use in surgery
- Introduction to knotting techniques
- Technical aspects of suturing skills and wound closure
- Safe use of local anesthesia.