Perioperative Nursing

Clinical Skills is an online skills reference, learning, and competency management system including around 1,300 Skills. It can be customised by Clinical Educators who can add or suppress Skills content.
Clinical Skills includes the following:
*Quick Sheet: a short summary of the steps to perform a skill
*Extended Text: a detailed explanation of the skill
*Supplies: a list of the supplies needed to perform the skill
*Demonstration: animation or video of the skill being performed
*Illustrations: images and graphics to explain the skill further
*Competency Test: an online exam - results can be tracked and reported
*Checklist: a checklist used to assess competency in performing the skill

ClinicalKey allows the logging of time spent for self-directed, structured, online learning. This can be used towards the acquisition of time-based CME credits from various professional associations throughout Australia and New Zealand.
A ClinicalKey Personal Account is required to access this feature. Then:
1. Identify a clinical question relevant to your practice.
2. Perform a search in ClinicalKey to answer your clinical question.
3. Access most relevant content, and the time spent reviewing the content will be automatically recorded as "Potential CME." Content must be peer-reviewed (ie, Books, Published Journals (not Articles-in-Press, and Clinical Overviews).

Link to canned searches on key topics such as "Never Events" (serious adverse and preventable events) including Air Embolism, Falls and Trauma and Surgical-Site Infection as well as clinical education topics; Orientation, Simulation, Mentoring and Evidence-based Nursing