The recent OR Today webinar “Start Warm, Stay Warm: A Focus on Maintaining Normothermia Perioperatively” sponsored by Encompass Group is eligible for 1 CE credit. OR Today is approved and licensed to be a Continuing Education Provider with the California Board of Registered Nurses, License #16623.
Encompass Group Director of Clinical Resources Kristy Warren, MSN Ed, RN, discussed focusing on maintaining normothermia perioperatively.
Attendees left with a better understanding of:
- The evolving outpatient surgical population.
- The continuing prevalence of hypothermia.
- Understand the role of Enhanced Recovery after Surgery and patient warming.
- Understand the role of the perioperative team in maintaining normothermia.
- Cutaneous heat loss and the Rule of Nines.
- Typical warming methods.
- Ways to combine active and passive warming to achieve optimal outcomes.
Tracey Sheets, an infection preventionist with Ascension Sacred Heartin Florida won an OR Today lunch/cooler bag during the webinar.
Attendee were asked, “Why do you love being a perioperative professional?”
“I love that no two days are the same and that I can focus on one patient at a time,” said Melissa Portenier, OR Manager, HaysMed.
“Teamwork and one-on-one patient care,” shared Mary Jo Hutchcraft, Nurse Education Specialist, Mosaic Life Care.
“Protecting patient’s when they are most vulnerable,” said Ashley Mason, Quality Improvement Specialist, Mercy.
“Caring for patients and the thrill of the different procedures,” said Tracey Sheets, Perioperative Infection Preventionist, Ascension Sacred Heart.
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