Valencia, Spain | 16 - 18 May 2024 11th EORNA Congress ePosters 67 368 “Set up for Success” Fundamentals of Perioperative and Anaesthetic Nursing 2 Day Programme Vikki Sheeran1, Teresa Donnelly1 1CNME Cregg, Rosses Point, Ireland Engaging in Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is essential to maintain and enhance professional standards and provide safe, high quality, evidence based care (NMBI, 2015). Perioperative Nurses are experts in one or more of the fields of Perioperative Nursing care and must display awareness of current developments, knowledge and skills critical to provide safe patient care (EORNA, 2019). Develop a 2 day programme, NMBI Category 1 approved. • Provide CPD opportunity for Perioperative Nurses, an integral component in the delivery of high quality, safe patient care. • Ensure access locally to CPD. • Ensure availability of bespoke CPD education. • Increase the skills set of the advanced beginner Nurse. Bespoke education programme developed, NMBI Category 1 approved. Comprehensive curriculum document was developed. An interdisciplinary programme incorporating a number of teaching and learning methodologies. • Pre assessment questionnaire provided baseline data on participants’ knowledge and skills prior. • Evaluation forms gathered participants’ perceptions of the programme content, delivery methods and relevance. • A post assessment questionnaire was conducted to measure the knowledge and skills gained. • Three months post completion of the programme a follow up survey was conducted to assess the long term impact of the programme on clinical practice. • Feedback from key stakeholders was compiled to assess the programmes’ effectiveness and impact on delivery of safe, high quality, evidence based patient care. A combination of these evaluation methods enabled the author to garner a comprehensive overview of the effectiveness and impact of the programme. Evaluations to date have ensured the bespoke programme is now mandatory for all RGN’s new to the operating theatre department in the hospital. As a result of the success of the programme, the overwhelmingly positive evaluations and the noted positive impact on direct patient care and ensuring availability of highly skilled RGN’s, a 5 day programme is under development. 369 THE EXPERIENCES OF PATIENTS WHO HAD SURGERY IN THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC Emine Acar1, Nurdan GEZER2 1Kütahya Health Sciences University Evliya Çelebi Research and Training Hospital, Kütahya, Turkey, 2Aydın Adnan Menderes University Nursing Faculty, Surgical Nursing Department, Aydın, Turkey This research was conducted as a qualitative study to examine the experiences of patients who underwent surgical intervention in the Covid-19 pandemic. The study group consisted of 37 patients who underwent surgical intervention during the pandemic period in the General Surgery Service of Kütahya Health Sciences University Evliya Çelebi Training and Research Hospital. The study was explained to the patients and their verbal and written consents were obtained. Research data were collected by in-depth interview method using a patient introduction form containing the sociodemographic characteristics of the patients and semistructured research questions. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with the patients for approximately 30-45 minutes and the interviews were recorded by a voice recorder. Three main themes have been identified regarding the experiences of patients who underwent surgical intervention in the Covid-19 pandemic. The main theme of emotions; It covers five sub-themes: surgery-related, prognostic-related,
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