{"id":1229,"date":"2019-05-14T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T03:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2019-05-14T03:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T03:55:50","slug":"jacque-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/speakers\/jacque-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacque Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jacque Roberts Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Registered Nurse First Surgical Assistant (RNFSA) for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at Waikato Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I began training for RNFSA in 2010,\nafter working in surgical wards and PACU for several years. I completed my post graduate diploma in Advanced\nNursing at Auckland University in 2012. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a RNFSA at Waikato hospital I\nassist with all types of cardio-thoracic surgery and harvest conduit for\ncoronary artery bypass surgery. I work\nwithin the entire perioperative continuum, with visiting pre-surgical patients\nfor conduit choice and pre-operative education and review my surgical wounds on\nthe ward post-surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is a very busy and fulfilling role within the DHB, with cardiac surgery completing over 600 cases per year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PEARS Procedure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2016, Mr Nick Odom and Mr Adam El\nGamel at Waikato Hospital began this innovative procedure to provide external\nsupport to an enlarged aortic root using a customized flexible mesh: \u2018personalized\nexternal aortic root support\u2019 (PEARS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n My presentation will outline what\nand how the PEARS procedure works, the benefits for patients and considerations\nfor theatre nurses and RNFSAs assisting in theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Biography Jacque Roberts Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Registered Nurse First Surgical Assistant (RNFSA) for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery at Waikato Hospital. I began training for RNFSA in 2010, after working in surgical wards and PACU for several years. I completed my post graduate diploma in Advanced Nursing at Auckland University in 2012. As a RNFSA at Waikato…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confer.nz\/periop2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}