Opening remarks: Dr. Dina Schnurman, Chief Nursing Officer, Sidra Medicine

1. Apply human factors principles to a surgical case scenario and identify at least two system-based interventions to reduce the risk of patient harm.
2. Analyze communication, teamwork, and situational-awareness challenges in the operating room and select appropriate strategies to improve shared understanding and coordinated team performance.
3. Evaluate the effects of cognitive load, fatigue, interruptions, and time pressure on clinical performance, and recommend two practical strategies to support safe decision-making under pressure.
4. Design one improvement to an operating room environment or workflow that reduces error opportunities, strengthens reliability, and promotes safer surgical care.

1. Explain how scanner integration can improve traceability, inventory accuracy, cost visibility, and availability of essential materials in the operating room.
2. Analyze the current operating room materials-management workflow to identify at least two risks associated with manual documentation, stock variation, missing supplies, or product expiry.
3. Apply a scanner-enabled workflow to a perioperative case scenario and determine the correct steps for item identification, documentation, stock updating, and exception escalation.
4. Develop an implementation proposal for scanner integration that defines required stakeholders, staff training, workflow changes, risk controls, and measurable indicators of safety, efficiency, and user adoption.

1. Describe how selected surgical initiatives and innovations address identified gaps in perioperative quality, efficiency, or patient safety.
2. Apply an evidence-based innovation or improvement strategy to a perioperative case scenario and identify the resources, stakeholders, and implementation steps required.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of a surgical initiative using at least two relevant safety or quality outcome measures, such as compliance, adverse-event rates, workflow reliability, or patient experience.
4. Design a practical perioperative improvement proposal that defines the safety problem, proposed intervention, measurable outcome indicators, and approach for sustaining and spreading successful change.

1. Identify priority clinical, operational, technological, and environmental risks that may disrupt safe surgical services.
2. Apply established emergency protocols to a perioperative crisis scenario and prioritize immediate actions that protect patients, staff, and the sterile environment.
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of communication, teamwork, resource allocation, and escalation processes during a simulated surgical-service emergency, and recommend two improvements.
4. Develop a practical resilience and continuity plan that includes risk mitigation, defined team roles, essential resource requirements, recovery actions, and post-event learning.

1. Explain key ethical principles—including autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and respect for dignity—and relate them to perioperative nursing practice.
2. Apply an ethical decision-making framework to a surgical case involving informed consent, confidentiality, patient preferences, or competing clinical priorities.
3. Analyze how social, cultural, communication, disability-related, and health-system factors may create inequities in access to safe surgical care and perioperative outcomes.
4. Develop an advocacy response that protects patient rights, promotes culturally responsive and equitable care, and appropriately escalates an ethical or safety concern within the surgical team.

1. Recognise the universal principles of quality and patient safety in the operating theatres, regardless of differences in resources, technology, or healthcare systems.
2. Apply evidence-based nursing leadership and safety practices in areas such as infection prevention, communication, teamwork, equipment safety, competency, and pre-operative preparation.
3. Identify opportunities for nurses to lead quality improvement and promote a culture of safety, including speaking up, reporting incidents and near misses, using data, mentoring colleagues, and adapting global standards to local needs.

1. Summarize the purpose, methodology, key findings, and implications presented in selected surgical nursing poster abstracts.
2. Analyze how poster projects apply evidence-based practice, quality improvement, or innovation to address challenges in surgical care.
3. Identify at least one relevant strategy or insight from the presentations that could be adapted to improve surgical nursing practice or patient outcomes.

Session 1 – Outpatient Clinic: Recognizing and escalating red flags during preoperative outpatient assessment.
Speaker: Lena Lapena & Erlinda Cuatrona – Clinical Nurse, Sidra Medicine

Session 2 – PAT, DSU and PACU: Ensuring readiness for surgery and safe handover across the perioperative pathway.
Speaker: Jessica Haripersad & Kathrina Cabuang – Clinical Nurse, Sidra Medicine

Session 3 – Operating Room: Applying surgical safety checks and speaking up when a safety concern is identified.
Speaker: Priya Subramanian & Armie Nuguid – Clinical Nurse, Sidra Medicine

Session 4 – Cath Lab: Preventing contrast-, anticoagulation- and access-site-related complications.
Speaker: Maria Margarita Espino & Judelyn Reyes Serrano – Clinical Nurse, Sidra Medicine

Session 5 – IR/DI: Maintaining patient identification, procedure-site verification, and radiation safety.
Speaker: Icra Elwadia & Rhea Werble – Clinical Nurse, Sidra Medicine

Session 6 – Surgical Ward 5A: Detecting and escalating early postoperative deterioration.
Speaker: Anjali Pillai – Clinical Nurse, Sidra Medicine

Session 7 – Surgical Ward 5B: Planning safe discharge through patient education, medication reconciliation, and follow-up.
Speaker: Catherine Mendoza & Rinabelle Martillana – Clinical Nurse, Sidra Medicine

1. Analyze the patient’s assessment findings and identify at least three priority risks or readiness concerns requiring nursing intervention before surgery.
2. Demonstrate correct aseptic practice, safe patient positioning, and completion of surgical safety checks in accordance with organizational protocols, achieving all critical steps on the facilitator checklist.
3. Prioritize at least three evidence-based nursing interventions for pain control, recovery, and prevention or early recognition of complications, and justify each intervention before the end of the session.

1. Describe the clinical problem, intervention, and key outcomes presented in selected surgical nursing posters.
2. Critically appraise the relevance and potential impact of poster findings on patient safety, quality improvement, or surgical nursing practice.
3. Engage with poster authors to identify at least one evidence-based idea or innovation that could be adapted within their own clinical setting.