Stavanger, Norway | 12 - 15 May 2022 10th EORNA Congress Parallel Sessions 21 Parallel session: Education of nurses: Spotlight on digital tools OP17 My operating room nurse coach (MYORCO) C. Willems1, W. Schellekens1, I. Antoniadou2, J. Wichsová3, J. Perttunen4, D. Poulis5, I. Koutelekos5, S. Jonsson2, D. Pasteau6, S. Holma4, J. Skvrnakova3, Partners of MYORCO Project 1Haute Ecole Léonard de Vinci, Spécialisations en Soins Périopératoires, Bruxelles, Belgium, 2Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden, 3Pardubice University, Pardubice, Czech Republic, 4JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland, 5GORNA, Athens, Greece, 6DP Conseil, Veigné, France In Europe, Perioperative Nurses do not necessarily follow a specialized training before entering an operating theater! Where available, the trainings are very heterogeneous and sometimes, not legally required. There is a clear and significant pressure on the operating theaters: the number of aging surgical patients increases steadily, there is a big staff turnover, and the surgical techniques are evolving very quickly. Consequently, the staff and the OR managers are facing increasingly complex requests. On the other hand, ambulatory surgery (patient leaves the hospital the day of its operation) is heading toward a permanent just-in-time process which involves a new approach of personnel practices. How to address these public health issues which affects OR nurses and also the patient? Key Skill Management in the Operating Room (KSMOR) is the first European project dealing with this situation and was presented before in a previous EORNA congress. KSMOR provides OR managers with a method and a software focusing on key practices used in high-risk environments by the operating room nurses. In order to meet the requests of the OR professionals, a new project has been developed centred on the practices of the OR nurse: « My Operating Room Nurse Coach (MYORCO) ». MYORCO will provide a large range of video trainings for OR nurses. These video trainings highlight the devices, tools and surgical instruments the OR nurses use during the perioperative care. Around one hundred of short movies on ergonomy of instrumentation for new OR nurses will be realized, on the basis of regular surgical practices. A specific software will allow each individual OR nurse and his/her Mentor to make sure that the practices are correctly followed. The software also will allow the OR nurse to do a part of the training on his/her own. MYORCO will complete the KSMOR website. OP18 Digital technology helps in the education and daily work of medical staff in the operating room M. Elin1 1HaEmeck Medical Center, Operation Room, Afula, Israel Operating room is a workplace that requires a great deal of knowledge from the medical staff in a very wide variety of professions and technologies. Doctors, nurses and technicians are exposed to thousands of names of medical equipment and instruments, hundreds of types of surgical activities, surgical techniques which each technique requires different preparation, different equipment, etc. This is a serious problem even for an experienced team and especially for a new and less experienced team. Incomplete preparation for operation ultimately results in delays between operations, during procedures, unnecessary waste of very expensive equipment and significantly decrease patient safety. The construction of the database, which will include lists of equipment required for each operation, explanations of surgical techniques, explanations of the operation of surgical equipment and an explanation of the names of basic surgical instruments should reduce errors in the preparation for procedures, reduce the level of stress of the medical staff and ensure patient safety. The tool I developed is based on the DROPBOX app, where all records are made by WORLD and the files are saved on the personal computer. After completing the construction of the database, the entire folder is shared by sharing link via WhatsApp to all relevant staff. When any change is required in the database, it made on the main computer and the team gets an update immediately. As a result of using the tool there is a significant decrease in errors in preparation for operation, so patient safety is more guaranteed. There is a decrease in the cost of the surgery and there are fewer delays during the surgery. This shortens the duration of the surgery and anaesthesia, which affects the results of the treatment.
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