9 Stavanger, Norway | 12 - 15 May 2022 10th EORNA Congress Symposia Symposium: Quality of care: No room for compromise S05 The importance of the operating room reception for patient care Y. Edry1, OR nurses advisory committee, Israel national nursing administration - the professional guidance committee 1IPNA- PRESIDENT, Tirat Carmel, Israel The reception room unit in the operating room department is a crucial point for the quality of care and patient safety. It’s the first meeting of the patient and families with perioperative staff, the point of checking the patient preparation for the operation and the last place that we can fix problems or stop a mistake. In 2018 the national nursing administration of Israel decided to work together with the professional associations to promote the quality of care and patients’ safety of patients who need to be operated on. IPNA - Israeli Perioperative Nurses Association took part in that project and we decided to create guidelines for the Perioperative reception units, not only a list of doing or not to do, we wrote the Reception Unit Nurses professional job description. We start our project by collecting data from most of the Israeli operating room departments. we create a questionary that included the question: 1. reception room nurse’s education? 2. the nurse’s professional experience? 3. how many shifts are the reception unite is staffed? 4. do you have guidelines for the reception unite nurses? 5. Do you think that only perioperative nurses must work in the reception unite? We found that in half of the reception room units the nurses are not perioperative nurses. In most hospitals, the reception rooms not working afternoon and night shifts, in 50% of hospitals they don’t have guidelines for the reception unit. Results: In cooperation with our association and the national nursing administration, we created the official guidelines for the operating department’s reception room, including an education program for nurses that working in the reception units. In August 2021, the guideline was published to all the hospitals. Next year we attending to check the implementation of the guidelines in the operating room department in Israel. S06 Brief and debrief: an essential exercise to promote quality and safety in the operating room L. Lynch1 1Sligo University Hospital, General Theatre, Sligo, Ireland As a manager and a leader, the presenter considers the implementation of briefings and debriefings as core elements in the delivery of safe and quality care in the OR. This led the presenter to explore what qualities are needed as a leader to become an effective change agent. In addition to possessing knowledge, eagerness and enthusiasm to drive change effective leaders must have the ability to motivate and empower colleagues to develop and express their own ideas (Glenn, 2010). Bassett and Westmore (2012) advise that if there is poor leadership within an organisation it leads to inadequate and poor performance. To implement any change effectively the change agent requires two leadership styles. Transactional and transformational. Collins (2005) outlines five levels in a hierarchy of leadership. He suggests that the Level five leader is on top of a hierarchy of abilities and is an essential requisite for transforming an organisation from good to great. Sadri (2012) reports that leadership may be enhanced if individuals Emotional Intelligence (EI) is developed and augmented. The presenter suggests that leadership in the OR is essential and needs to be fostered to ensure safe quality care. What my presentation will do: Recognise the necessity of briefing and debriefing in the OR. Identify skills that need to be cultivated to implement any change in practice in the OR. Understand leadership, styles and traits of effective leaders. Improve the overall quality and safety of care delivered in the OR. What I want: I feel this is a very pertinent patient safety topic and I would be delighted to get the opportunity to present my work at an AORN conference. As a leader implementing change continuously, I would like to share my expertise. As I am travelling from abroad assistance with travel would be gratefully appreciated.
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