No. Nurse educators are not replaceable! This program provides nurse educators a clear, consistent baseline to work from and provides extensive resources for ongoing education. In addition, your educators will receive education metrics about each learner so you can be sure you have a safe level of knowledge at system level, and your patients are in safe hands. 

Imagine if you could guarantee that all your grad nurses had a consistent and safe knowledge base... teaching would be so much easier!

Most hospitals are unable to provide 12 months of supervised experience in anaesthetic nursing as recommended in ANZCA PS08 - Guideline for the Assistant to the Anaesthetist. In fact, many are only able to provide 3-6 weeks of supervision and education. 

This program provides each new anaesthetic nurse with a safe and consistent knowledge base, and provides your educators with the resources to ensure you have a safe and competent perioperative team. 

We provide the foundation with our Anaesthetic Assistant Starter Course. We then provide ongoing learning via our Advanced Anaesthesia Live Series. 

Once in the course, all learners and educators have lifetime access to the content. Simply add your learners as they enter your organisation, we will take care of the rest!

All anaesthetic and recovery nurses will benefit from this program, however, the Starter Course is aimed at new anaesthetic nurses. It also provides an excellent refresher for experienced anaesthetic nurses, those working in endoscopy and those required to occasionally assist the anaesthetist.

The learning objectives of the Starter Course are:

1. Understands the important hazards within the operating theatre environment to patients and healthcare providers
2.  Understands the importance of trained vigilance in anaesthesia and has a framework to build such skills
3. Has a framework to address authority gradients within a perioperative team to protect patient safety
4. Has a framework to extract a safe plan from the anaesthetist for each list and anticipate clinical problems
5. Understands the 4 essential monitors of anaesthesia including information provided, normal ranges and sources of error
6. Understands the 6 important classes of drugs for general anaesthesia and how they can be safely identified
7. Understands how drug errors occur, why they are relatively common in the operating theatre and ways to prevent them
8. Has a framework to ensure they have the correct equipment for each case, and can anticipate airway problems utilising a shared mental model

Our Advanced Anaesthesia Live Series covers:

• Expected difficult airways
• Unexpected difficult airways
• Anaphylaxis
• Massive transfusion
• Malignant hyperthermia
• Advanced life support
• Paediatric airway emergencies
• Obstetric emergencies
• Neurosurgery
• ENT 
• Emergency cases
• Self-care after critical events
• Advanced airway techniques
• Patient positioning 
• Ethical dilemmas in the workplace

When you have provided us with the email addresses of those entering the program, we will provide each learner an individual login and password to the Member Section of our website, periopconcepts.com.

Our Periop Concepts App is an easy way for learners to access the content. This is free and available on the Apple App Store.

Each learner will receive their own copy of the Anaesthetic Assistant Handbook, and be granted access to all past the future education sessions.

Your manager and educators will also be granted access to the above content. 

We will make regular contact with your nominated educator, however, you can contact either Jack ([email protected]) or Andrew ([email protected]) for any issues.

Once we have confirmed the appropriate package for your hospital, we will provide you with an invoice. The program will begin on receipt of payment. 

There are 3 brackets available based on your hospital size and estimated number of learners. 

We are currently allowing unlimited registrations for hospitals that join our Program before December 31, 2023.

We receive all assessment results from the Starter Course and monitor the progress of each learner. If a learner is not engaging or falling behind with assessments, we will reach out that learner in the first instance. If we are unable to engage the learner and improve progress, we will liaise with your educator(s) via email. We will provide a 6-monthly report to your educators detailing learner progress and the topics covered in our regular sessions.

Yes. Periop Concepts and the Anaesthetic Assistant Starter Course are endorsed and accredited by:

The Australian College of PeriAnaesthesia Nurses (ACPAN)

The Australian College of Nursing

The Australian Society of Anaesthetists. 

The Anaesthesiologists Society of Namibia.

ACPAN Accreditation Reference No: ACPAN2023/1