1989 – Surgical Skills for Nurses (March 2024)

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Veterinary nurses play a key role in the preparation of patients for surgery, the running of theatres and during patient management in the post-operative period. They are also permitted to perform minor surgical procedures under veterinary direction and doing so can be hugely rewarding whilst assisting the efficient flow of a surgical list.

This course will provide you with an overview of how to prepare a patient for surgery, how to apply key surgical principles to optimise tissue healing and considerations for nursing the post-operative patient. The lectures will include a step-by-step guide to performing the surgical techniques listed below and there will be an opportunity to practice all of these techniques listed below and there will be the opportunity to practice all of these techniques in wet lab practical sessions.

What you’ll learn:

• Use of surgical instruments
• Suture patterns and materials
• Knot tying
• Use of skin staples and tissue adhesive
• Fine needle aspiration and biopsy techniques for skin lesions
• Simple skin mass excision
• Open wound management
• How to apply tie-over wound dressings
• Indications for surgical drains, how to use them and how to secure them

Tutor :  Faye Swinbourne BVM&S MVetMed DipECVS MRCVS

Course Feedback

‘Great combination of theory and practical based learning as well as having resources to take away. Friendly, achievable and easy to follow.’

‘Great course content and practical sessions. Well organised throughout and great to have practical aspects.’

‘Really enjoyed it, support and information was great, and beneficial. Interesting throughout and materials and information excellent.’

‘Tutor was very informative and very helpful during the practical sessions. Staff and facilities are of great standard.’

‘I really enjoyed this course. The practical sessions were brilliant and really helped me get to grips with suturing, in particular intradermals! The theory content was great too, easy to understand and interpret, I really enjoyed it and learnt a lot. I would recommend the course absolutely. It was very interesting and useful and I can’t wait to take my new skills back to practice and do it for real!’

This course is kindly sponsored by Veterinary Instrumentation

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