Placement Overview
| Placement Title | Pre Operative Assessment – SRFTP 83 |
| Trust | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |
| Your Placement Contact | Janet Blair, Paula Hewitt-Paul – Send Email |
| Placement Contact’s Role | Nurse Practitioners/ PELs |
| Placement Address | Hope Hospital, Stott Lane, Salford, M6 8HD |
| Placement City/Town: | Salford |
| Placement Phone | 0161 206 1412 |
| Your University Contact: | – Send Email |
About this placement
What is organised for students on commencement of placement?
- Meet your Mentor/Mentor Team allocation
- Off duty
- Dept induction
- General discussion
- Initial discussion and assessment
- Identify aims and objectives
- Specific objectives
- Identify spoke placements
- Routine of pre-op clinic
- Role of a Pre-operative Nurse
- Optimisation of Health
- Patient journey
- Pre-operative investigations
- Role of an Anaesthetist
- Shadowing Anaesthetist
- Shadowing Support Workers in Blood Room
- Participation in Huddles
- Pre-operative meetings
- Clinical Governance
- Meetings with Link Nurses
- Health promotion
- ECG’s/PFT’s/Echocardiograms
- Infection Control
- Self Directed Study
Please download your Welcome Pack prior to commencing placement
What are the arrangements for Assessors/Supervisors?
Team mentoring – students are allocated to a team prior to placement
Off Duty – Students to phone prior to placement for off duty
Students are invited to look around department prior to starting placement
What shift patterns are students allocated for learning?
Early:
07:30 – 16:00 / 07:30 – 16:30
Late:
07:30 – 18:30
Note: We do not work weekend or night shifts or Bank Holidays
What patient care situations are available in this placement?
- Patients being referred from GP to specialist in Outpatients Department. If surgery indicated, continue to Pre-operative Assessment Clinic to ascertain fitness for general anaesthetic and/or optimisation of health
- Anaesthetic reviews
- Investigations
- Medications advice
- Health promotion
What nursing model is used for planning care?
Orem’s Model of Nursing
What core clinical skills can be learnt?
- Observational skills
- Communication skills extremely important
- Clinical observation
- Venepuncture
- ECG’s and PFT’s
- Decision making skills
- Ability to work within a team
- Health Promotion
- Ability to manage own workload
- Ability to manage own self directed study
Additional Clinical Skills
Research skills and Evidence-based Practice
What resources are available to help students learning?
- Internet
- Intranet
- SRFT Library
- Student Noticeboard
- Journals
- Pre-Op team members
- Anaesthetists
- Multi-Disciplinary Team
- Other students
- University Link Lecturer/Personal Tutor
- Practice Education Leads
- Practice Education Facilitators
What research and practice development activities are being undertaken?
- The role of a Pre-operative Nurse
- The role of an Anaesthetist
- Optimisation of patients prior to surgery
- Research relevant to pre-op protocols
Spoke Placements
- Outpatients Department
- Specialist Nurses
- Blood Room
- Day Surgery Unit/Surgical Admissions Lounge
- Anaesthetics
- Theatres
- Recovery
- Cardio Respiratory Investigations
- Pain Team (not 1st year students)
- Fracture Clinic
- Oral Department
- ERAS Nurses
- Sleep Studies
- Pacemaker Clinic
- Pre-op Support Team Mentors
Additional Information
It would be very beneficial for students to research around the subject of the role of a pre-operative nurse practitioner role prior to commencing placement.
NB:- Students must complete their self assessment prior to commencing placement.
Practice Education Facilitator – Andrea Surtees – Pre-Registration Practice Education Facilitator, Learning & Development Dept, 2nd Floor, Mayo Building, SRFT
Contact Number: 07395799524