HealthStream® Surgical Orientation helps you prepare your entire perioperative team for surgery. It uses competency-based training to ensure staff safety and readiness. By offering customizable tools, it creates a unified approach to onboarding your surgical team.

Earning a moderate sedation certification helps your staff minimize risks for conscious sedation practiced outside of the operating room. This training gives your team the skills they need to establish conscious sedation assurance and rescue patients from potential complications.

Sedation training ensures clinicians can safely administer and manage moderate sedation, reduce patient risk, and respond to complications. Proper training improves patient outcomes, supports compliance with regulations, and enhances team confidence during high-acuity procedures.

Surgical and sedation training is designed for:

• Nurses (circulating and perioperative)
• Surgical technologists
• Physicians and non-anesthesia providers
• Clinical educators and administrators

It supports both new staff onboarding and ongoing competency development across care teams.

A surgical orientation program typically includes:

• Role-based training for perioperative staff
• Simulation-based learning and skills validation
• Competency checklists and assessments
• Clinical decision-making exercises

These elements help teams build confidence and readiness for real-world surgical scenarios.

Competency-based training helps healthcare teams:

• Reduce onboarding time
• Improve clinical judgment and critical thinking
• Ensure consistent skill validation
• Meet regulatory and accreditation requirements

This approach focuses on measurable performance outcomes rather than just course completion.