26^th World Nursing Healthcare Conference July 11-12, 2019 Berlin, Germany

Helena De Rezende is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Bucks New University in England. Is currently a PhD student in Management of Nursing Services, from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Samantha McCormack is Technical Manager for Simulation, Psychology & Performance Team at Bucks New University.

Clinical skills in nursing education aims to integrate theoretical knowledge acquired from seminars, lectures and teaching sessions into practical knowledge in real life situations and to help students develop critical thinking

and problem solving skills. Simulation-based clinical education offers students the opportunity to learn and practice techniques and skills that are fundamental to their professional lives and also stimulates the decision-making process. Using a variety of real-life situational experiences without compromising patient Centered Care, the student has the possibility to apply several competences and skills in a dynamic, motivating and stimulating environment

for learning. In an English public university, located in the London region, the pre registration nursing programme focuses on teaching based on simulation and clinical skills. Buckinghamshire New University, school of Nursing and

Allied Health, has six skills and simulations labs for use in the pre-registration nursing degree in Adult, Child and Mental Health Nursing and also for the Nursing Degree Apprenticeship, Nursing Associate Course and Operating

Department Practitioner. A range of strategies and simulations scenarios are used and modified to teach different skills and benefit higher education in a variety of situations. These situations can involve engagement of service

users as patients and clients in ‘live’ human simulation, moulage, or application of make-up to stimulate clinical presentations and also mannequin-based simulation. These strategies are very well accepted by the students to

ensure skill enhancement, ultimately to support and empower students so they can achieve their potential.

Wafaa Hassan Abdullah Ali started her academic career since 1985. She got her Master and PhD degrees in Medical Surgical Nursing between 1990 and 1996. Prof Wafaa had Post-Doctoral mission as a first Arabian visiting professor to School of Nursing in Minnesota University United States of America from Feb. 2005 to May 2005. She had been affiliated to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2006 for 10 years teaching under and post graduâtes in king Abdulaziz university Jeddah KSA. Additionally she had been as a judge within scientific promotion committee for academic staff and an external examiner for bechlor nursing programme for fakeeh applied medical sciences college in jeddah KSA. Also she participated in so many national and international conferences . Finally she has recently 8 international published research papers in medical surgical nursing field. Also another research papers still under publishing process

Background: Keeping patients safe while in the postoperative period is a topic of great concern for patients and nurses.

 

Aim: To determine safety measures for postoperative surgical patients and its relation to patients’ outcomes.

 

Design: Descriptive, correlational research designs was utilized.

Setting: Surgical “Male & Female ‘departments’ at king abdulaziz university teaching affiliated hospital in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Subjects: Non-probability convenience sample was chosen and it consisted of all available nurses working from the above setting and their surgical postoperative patients. Total numbers included in the study were 31 nurses and 31 post-operative patients.

 

Tools: 1. Sociodemographic questionnaire: to assess nurses Socio-demographic characteristics.

2. Safety Measures Observation Checklists: to investigate safety measures applied by nurses for surgical patients postoperatively.

3.Surgical Patient Clinical outcomes observational Checklist: was adopted from hospital chart to determine surgical patient clinical outcomes within the first 24 hours postoperatively.

 

Results: The highest percentage of studied nurses were providing care for their patients equally without pay attention to religion, color or gender. Also it revealed that nurses were not explains to patients; the importance of knowing the signs of wound inflammation.

 

Conclusions: There is a positive correlation but not significant between safety measures score and surgical patient clinical outcome score. Also the educational level among the studied nurses had a positive effect between safety

measures dimension and patient outcomes postoperatively.

 

Recommendations: There is a need to change in the educational system through creating patient safety courses in nursing faculties’ curriculums.

 

Keywords: Safety Measures- Surgical Patients- Patient Outcomes..