Two Nurses will direct the AOTrauma ORP Course 2016 Dos enfermeras serán las directoras del curso AOTrauma para Personal de Quirófano 2016

Two Nurses will direct the AOTrauma ORP Course 2016

Dos enfermeras serán las directoras del curso AOTrauma para Personal de Quirófano 2016

This year, the AO Trauma Course – Basic Principles of Fracture Management for Operating Room Personnel (ORP) will be held on 15-16 February 2016 in Melia Avenida de América Hotel (Madrid-Spain). 

It will be the first time that an AOTrauma Spain course is directed only by nurses. The faculty group will be composed of nurses and surgeons; they will work together to get a broad vision of caring for patients with fractures.

The program for this course was reviewed and meets the criteria for the "AO Competency-Based Curriculum" stamp. The stamp shows our course participants and faculties that the course is a high-quality educational activity and part of a global curriculum. It indicates that the course content was developed in a careful planning process and approved by the AOTEC (AO Trauma Education Commission) based on an agreed framework of competencies and learning outcomes.

AO Trauma ORP Courses includes different activities:

• ·      Lectures
• ·      Practical Exercises
• ·      Discussion groups

This course will provide several evidence-based lectures. In practical exercises, participants will be trained in the application of fixation techniques and familiarization with the instrumentation. And discussions in small groups help participants to understand the decision-making process in fracture management and the importance of appropriate nursing preparations.

Elena Miguel Poza Head of nursing in the IMTRA Incoma clinic in Madrid and specialised Traumatology and orthopaedic surgery nurse.

Elena Miguel Poza - Nurse, nursing coordinator & trainer - Enfermera coordinadora y profesora de enfermería - IMTRA Instituto Madrileño de Traumatologia (Madrid Spain)
Tel: (0034) 915545405 Email: elena@imtra.es Web site in English: http://www.imtra.eu Web site in Spanish: www.imtra.biz

Curso AOTrauma para Personal de Quirófano. Principios Básicos del Tratamiento de las Fractura. 2015s

 AOTrauma Course—Basic Principles of Fracture Management for ORP 2015

AO Trauma Course—Basic Principles of Fracture Management for Operating Room Personnel (ORP) has been from 9th to 10^th February 2015 in Barcelona (Spain).

The AO Trauma ORP is a course targeted at nurses who work or will be in the traumatology operating room. It includes different activities:

•        Lectures
•        Practical Exercises
•        Discussion groups

During the Barcelona course, all lectures  (by nurses and surgeons) were clear, orientated to nursing and the faculties were confident, good communicators.

Some lecturers have used the lecture presentations translated to Spanish by Elena Miguel from the website of AO Trauma. Elena Miguel has been faculty and instructor in this course.

In the practical exercises, participants watched the video and afterwards they did the respective practical exercise. There were five tables with 6 posts and a nurse and a surgeon as table instructors in each table. All these allowed to all participants to do the exercise and to ask doubts to instructors and they said that they have learnt a lot doing these exercises.

In the discussion groups, the participants were divided into 5 groups (same groups as practical exercises). There were a nurse and a surgeon as leaders in each group. They could discuss several topics:

•         Peri-operative preparation for an osteosynthesis of different fractures
•          Infection control

During this activity the participants were active and enthusiastic.

This kind of course is very interesting for operating room personnel because participants are trained in the application of fixation techniques and familiarization with the instrumentation. And discussions in small groups help participants to understand the decision-making process in fracture management and the importance of appropriate nursing preparations.

Elena Miguel Poza - Nurse, nursing coordinator & trainer - Enfermera coordinadora y profesora de enfermería - IMTRA Instituto Madrileño de Traumatologia (Madrid Spain)
Tel: (0034) 915545405 C/ Explanada 16 (28040 Madrid-Spain)  Email: elena@imtra.es Web site in English: http://www.imtra.eu Web site in Spanish: www.imtra.biz