Module 6: Continuing Professional Development and Supporting the Future of Perioperative Nursing

🎯 Module Objectives

1. Examine and explain the status of nursing in Canada.
2. Reflect on and describe socio-cultural economic events and social determinants of health that impact Canadian healthcare. Define continuing professional development (CPD).
3. Identify and personally commit to opportunities to engage in CPD.
4. Explore and describe global and local perspectives on the future of nursing.
5. Discuss opportunities for expanded perioperative nursing roles – building capacity

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📖 Required Readings

Lifelong learning and nurses’ continuing professional development, a metasynthesis of literature.
Mandlenkosi Mlambo, M., Silén, C., & McGrath, C. (2021). Biomed Central Nursing, 20 (62), 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-021-00579-2

Future of Nursing Podcast
https://nam.edu/the-future-of-nursing-podcast/ (22:18)
Episode 8 The Goal for 2030. The future of nursing 2020-2030

NursingOpen, Wiley, 692-704.
DOI: 10.1002/nop2.1120
Blomberg, A.C., Lindwall, L., Bisholt, B. (2021). Operating theatre nurses with managerial responsibility: Self-reported clinical competence and need of competence development in perioperative nursing

The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25982.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2021). The future of nursing 2020-2030: Charting a path to achieve health equity. M. Wakefield, D. Williams, S. Le Menestrel, & J. Flaubert (Eds).

Med-Tech Innovation.
Surgery 4.0: What really constitutes the future of surgical research?
Jayne & Frangi (2022). Surgery 4.0: What really constitutes the future of surgical research?

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Introduction

This module focuses on supporting perioperative nurses in advancing their professionalism through two methods: continuing professional development and participating in envisioning our future roles as nurses. You will actively participate in these topics through your Reflective Journal.