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Know what you know about
perioperative best practices
Every perioperative nurse knows that there is little time, when
caring for a patient, to think twice about their knowledge to
provide care that meets AORN standards and recommended practices.
But a new tool offered by AORN can help perioperative professionals
test their confidence in this knowledge to help them respond
quickly and be confident and knowledgeable about the important
information they need to know to provide optimal patient care.
Participate in a poll to share how often you make correct decision with 100% confidence.
Through AORN's new Confidence-Based Learning tool, perioperative nurses can test how confident they are in their knowledge of information in AORN's recommended practices through testing modules, including Reducing Radiological Exposure in the Perioperative Practice Setting , Safe Environment of Care , Positioning the Patient in the Perioperative Practice Setting, Sterilization in the Perioperative Practice Setting, Preoperative Patient Skin Antisepsis , High Level Disinfection, and Preventing Unplanned Perioperative Hypothermia.
In ordinary multiple choice tests, those tested are rewarded for guessing correctly, but AORN's Confidence-Based Learning modules eliminate the guessing element by testing one's confidence level as well as whether the correct response is selected. Each testing module asks a series of questions about content in one of AORN's recommended practices, and the questions are posed in a way to determine confidence in the knowledge. For example, in the testing module on Reducing Radiological Exposure in the Perioperative Practice Setting, one question asks, "Which statement is true regarding the patient's exposure to radiation?" and provides three multiple choice statements to choose the following answers: "I am sure of A, B, or C," "I am partially sure of A or B, B or C, A or C,", or "I am not sure". If questions are answered as unsure or are answered incorrectly, the module provides educational resources to help the learner understand the correct answer.
Confidence-Based Learning modules can be used by individuals or by facilities to measure levels of knowledge in order to better determine what learners need to know. Training can then be individualized to address those specific knowledge and confidence gaps.
"Confidence-Based Learning provides a new way for perioperative professionals to better understand how they can improve their knowledge. It also gives organizations a way to understand their employees' level of knowledge, before costly mistakes are made on the job," said Susan Bakewell, MS, RN-BC, director of AORN's Center for Perioperative education. "Knowledge quality is the best predictor of a person's potential performance."
Bakewell also said AORN's new Confidence-Based Learning modules provide an excellent way to document education for performance evaluations and accreditation surveys. Confidence-Based Learning modules also offer continuing education credit.
Learn more
Confidence-Based Learning modules can be purchased individually or as packaged sets. To learn more and to purchase AORN's new Confidence-Based Learning modules, visit aorn.org/CBL.
Read more news in AORN Connections.
Participate in a poll to share how often you make correct decision with 100% confidence.
Through AORN's new Confidence-Based Learning tool, perioperative nurses can test how confident they are in their knowledge of information in AORN's recommended practices through testing modules, including Reducing Radiological Exposure in the Perioperative Practice Setting , Safe Environment of Care , Positioning the Patient in the Perioperative Practice Setting, Sterilization in the Perioperative Practice Setting, Preoperative Patient Skin Antisepsis , High Level Disinfection, and Preventing Unplanned Perioperative Hypothermia.
In ordinary multiple choice tests, those tested are rewarded for guessing correctly, but AORN's Confidence-Based Learning modules eliminate the guessing element by testing one's confidence level as well as whether the correct response is selected. Each testing module asks a series of questions about content in one of AORN's recommended practices, and the questions are posed in a way to determine confidence in the knowledge. For example, in the testing module on Reducing Radiological Exposure in the Perioperative Practice Setting, one question asks, "Which statement is true regarding the patient's exposure to radiation?" and provides three multiple choice statements to choose the following answers: "I am sure of A, B, or C," "I am partially sure of A or B, B or C, A or C,", or "I am not sure". If questions are answered as unsure or are answered incorrectly, the module provides educational resources to help the learner understand the correct answer.
Confidence-Based Learning modules can be used by individuals or by facilities to measure levels of knowledge in order to better determine what learners need to know. Training can then be individualized to address those specific knowledge and confidence gaps.
"Confidence-Based Learning provides a new way for perioperative professionals to better understand how they can improve their knowledge. It also gives organizations a way to understand their employees' level of knowledge, before costly mistakes are made on the job," said Susan Bakewell, MS, RN-BC, director of AORN's Center for Perioperative education. "Knowledge quality is the best predictor of a person's potential performance."
Bakewell also said AORN's new Confidence-Based Learning modules provide an excellent way to document education for performance evaluations and accreditation surveys. Confidence-Based Learning modules also offer continuing education credit.
Learn more
Confidence-Based Learning modules can be purchased individually or as packaged sets. To learn more and to purchase AORN's new Confidence-Based Learning modules, visit aorn.org/CBL.
Read more news in AORN Connections.