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What goes unreported goes unfixed: Why aren’t we reporting our injuries?

Presented to: Perioperative nurses at AORN, ORNAC, & VPNG conferences.

Learning objectives:

In this session, participants will:

1.Reflect on their perceptions of the risk of occupational injuries and experiences with hospital reporting injury processes, compared to national statistics within healthcare and other industries.
2.Identify individual factors and organisational factors which impact whether perioperative nurses will report occupational injuries.
3.Describe the consequences that not reporting an injury can have on the affected perioperative nurse, fellow perioperative team, and patients.
4.Discuss the practical measures that nurses and organisations can take to prevent underreporting of occupational injuries.

Empowering the horse to drink: Using change management tools to successfully implement safety Improvements

Presented to: Perioperative nurses at AORN conference, and podiatrists at APODA conference.

Learning objectives:

In this session, participants will:

1.Identify when a change is necessary for staff and patient safety.
2.Discuss the barriers and facilitators for successful implementation of projects to improve perioperative safety.
3.Review John Kotter’s 8-Step Process for Leading Change as a change management tool to implement improvements to perioperative safety.
4.Examine a case study undertaken in Australia to improve sharps safety.
5.Evaluate the effectiveness of safety improvement projects within perioperative units to ensure sustainable change is maintained.

Staff Safety, Patient Safety: Which is more important?

Presented to: Nursing and medical students in Australia and India. 

Learning objectives:

In this session, participants will:

1.Examine the history behind staff and patient safety attitudes in literature.
2.Understand how staff and patient safety are linked, and why staff safety has been traditionally ignored.
3.Review occupational safety hazards in healthcare and evidenced-based methods for reducing them, using sharps injuries as a case study.
4.Understand the risks and consequences of sharps injuries.
5.Review the current local and international regulations and standards mandating sharps safety.
6.Analyse sharps injury prevention strategies using the Hierarchy of Controls and apply them to clinical practice.
7.Explore how clinical practice can be made to safer for both staff and patients.

Staff Safety in Improving Patient Safety

Presented at the WHO’s World Patient Safety Day hosted by Malaysian Society for Quality in Health.

Learning objectives:

In this session, participants will:

1.Review the history of staff and patient safety initiatives.
2.Examine the links between staff and patient safety, and discuss why staff safety has been traditionally ignored.
3.Analyse how other industries have implemented systematic safety
4.Review occupational safety hazards in healthcare and evidenced-based methods for reducing them, using sharps injuries as a case study.
5.Translate safety principles into practice.
6.Evaluate the savings and benefits of prevention. 

To Err is Human, to fail to learn is inexcusable:

Applying A Systems-Based Approach To Prevent Adverse Events

Presented to: Perioperative nurses at AORN and ACORN conferences, and medical and nursing students. 

Learning objectives:

In this session, participants will:

1.Examine systems-based approaches to managing patient and staff safety risks, through retrospective and prospective analysis.
2.Use tools for conducting Root Cause Analysis, under retrospective analysis.
3.Investigate methods for prospective analysis, including tools for risk analysis .
4.Demonstrate how the CAPA Framework and Hierarchy of Controls ensure successful implementation of solutions.

Sharps injury risks and prevention strategies

Presented to: Perioperative nurses and other healthcare workers in Australia, Hong Kong, UK, and globally.

Learning objectives:

In this session, participants will:

1.Discuss the risks of sharps injuries, through incidence data.
2.Investigate the consequences of sharps injuries to staff, patients, and facilities.
3.Examine the common reasons why staff safety can be neglected in healthcare.
4.Review local and international regulation, standards, and guidelines for sharps safety.
5.Explore sharps injury prevention strategies using the Hierarchy of Controls and apply them to practice.

Is the current thinking around Personal Protective Equipment bad for hospital staff safety?

Presented to: Perioperative nurses at AORN, EORNA and ACORN conferences.

Learning objectives:

In this session, participants will:

1.Recognise how PPE became the primary focus during the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2.Examine what healthcare and governments failed to learn from past epidemics and pandemics.
3.Review How to use a systematic approach for prevention against
a)Respiratory Infections
b)Other occupational injury and infection risks in operating rooms
4.Discuss how to prepare for the future, by taking actions for safety at the individual, organisational, and national levels.