Course Overview

The Nursing Operating Room & Recovery course is a comprehensive theoretical and self-paced online learning program designed to equip nurses with the specialized knowledge and clinical understanding required for providing safe and effective care in operating room and post-anesthesia recovery settings. It combines clinical knowledge concepts with self-directed learning to strengthen competence across all phases of surgical nursing.

The course focuses on:

• Applying the principles of surgical asepsis and maintaining a sterile environment
• Delivering comprehensive perioperative nursing care before, during, and after surgery
• Understanding anesthesia procedures and monitoring techniques
• Performing accurate post-operative assessments and managing recovery interventions
• Collaborating effectively with interdisciplinary surgical teams to ensure patient safety and quality outcomes

Accreditation & Contact Hours

The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing and BarezaANCE are jointly providing nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) contact hours for the educational activity entitled: Nursing Operating Room & Recovery. Nurses completing the entire activity, passing a post-knowledge assessment with >80%, and completing an evaluation tool will be awarded a maximum of 22.75 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD).  The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Course Completion Policy

• Participants have 60 days to complete all modules after passing each one with >80%.
• Access to the course closes after 60 days.
• Modules unlock sequentially (i.e., each must be completed before the next opens).

Important Note for Participants:
Each Nursing Continuing Professional Education (CPE) course on this platform is organized into a specific sequence of modules (e.g., Modules 1–5 or 1–7, 1-10, etc.), depending on the course content and learning outcomes.

Some modules are drawn from a larger shared pool of educational units and may contain internal references to different module numbers (for example, “Module 14” or “Module 9”).

Please follow the numbering displayed within this course (1, 2, 3, etc.) to complete the learning sequence correctly. Internal numbering variations do not affect your progress, contact-hour credit, or certificate eligibility.