Course Description

Patient Positioning in the Operating Room

Author:

R. Dan Allen

Purpose:

The purpose of this activity is to help perioperative nurses learn to position patients more safely, taking into consideration the position, the patient, the type of surgery, and the equipment being used.

This course expires on March 30, 2010.

The approval number for this course is: #00608.

Objectives

Identify the three reasons that preventing patient injury is a perioperative nurse priority
Identify at least two of the main positioning devices used to posture patients safely for surgery
Identify the information about a patient that is important to know in order to create a safe positioning plan
Identify specific body structures of the nervous, vascular, and integumentary systems that are at risk when the patient is positioned in one of the seven basic surgical postures
Identify several nursing interventions that help prevent patient injuries

Disclosures:

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Conflict Of interest: There is no conflict of interest noted for this course.

Commercial Support: There is no commercial support for this course.

Nonendorsement of Products: Approval for this activity refers only to continuing nursing education activity and does not imply that there is real or implied endorsement of any product, service, or company referred to in this activity nor of any company subsidizing costs related to the activity.

Off Label Use: There is no use of off label products in this presentation.

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Accreditation:

This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the Tennessee Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.