ACORN Papua New Guinea ANGAU Memorial Hospital redevelopment clinical support program (Part 1)

ACORN provided an expert consultancy team known as the Perioperative Clinical Advisory Team (PCAT) to undertake the required work for the key deliverables that were aimed at ensuring a standard of care that will be safe for the patients undergoing surgical procedures provided by Morobe Provincial Health Authority. [...]the governance, operational flows and ORS efficiency are aLL muLtidiscipLinary and require coLLaboration from aLL teams with Leadership from both nursing and medicine to succeed. [...]the primary educational focus was nursing with other deliverables aimed at the muLtidiscipLinary teams. Key deliverables Four key deliverables were identified: 1.Development of a monitoring and evaLuation framework incLuding a governance structure and risk management plan. 2. The PNGPSP incorporates appendices that apply to: * Pre-operative patient checklist * Surgical hand scrubbing procedures (three- and fiveminute) * Surgical hand rubbing procedure * Accountable items count sheet * Papua New Guinea Surgical Safety Checklist * ORS and CSU environmental cleaning audit * Perioperative patient journey audit forms (measured against the standards) * Perioperative safety guidelines (relating to positioning the patient, diathermy safety, pneumatic tourniquet safety, sharps handling and disposal, and specimen coflection) * WHO recommendations for staffing CSU The count sheet and surgical safety checklist can be utilised across all perioperative environments in PNG, therefore, enabling a safe, consistent approach to perioperative documentation.