Caring for the perioperative patient / Paul Wicker and Joy O'Neill.
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TextSeries: Essential clinical skillsPublication details: Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Edition: 2nd editionDescription: xii, 426 p. : illISBN: 9781444323306 (ebook)Subject(s): Operating room nursing | Preoperative care | Postoperative care | Health and Wellbeing | Peri-operative care | Nursing | Surgical nursingGenre/Form: Online access: Click here to access online Also available in printed form ISBN 9781405188500Summary: This concise, practical guide focuses on key skills and knowledge required by practitioners. The text identifies key perioperative competencies and emphasises patient-centred care. Caring for the Perioperative Patient is a practical, evidence-based and innovative book that identifies and discusses the essential core skills and knowledge required by perioperative practitioners to care for their patients. Divided into two sections, the first explores core perioperative issues, such as pharmacology, communication, homeostasis, and equipment. The second part of the book looks at more specific perioperative practice issues, including enhanced competence, patient preparation, and care of the patient during anaesthesia, surgery, and recovery. This updated new edition is skills-focused and uses examples of techniques or procedures to illustrate how skills can be applied in perioperative practice. It is essential reading for nurses or operating department practitioners (ODPs) who perform scrub, circulating, anaesthetic and recovery roles whilst caring for perioperative patients, as well as nursing and ODP students working in perioperative care. New edition of a successful text for perioperative practitioners and students Emphasises holistic patient centred care Focused on key skills and knowledge required by practitioners Explores the evidence-base for safe and effective practice
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Previous ed.: Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This concise, practical guide focuses on key skills and knowledge required by practitioners. The text identifies key perioperative competencies and emphasises patient-centred care. Caring for the Perioperative Patient is a practical, evidence-based and innovative book that identifies and discusses the essential core skills and knowledge required by perioperative practitioners to care for their patients. Divided into two sections, the first explores core perioperative issues, such as pharmacology, communication, homeostasis, and equipment. The second part of the book looks at more specific perioperative practice issues, including enhanced competence, patient preparation, and care of the patient during anaesthesia, surgery, and recovery. This updated new edition is skills-focused and uses examples of techniques or procedures to illustrate how skills can be applied in perioperative practice. It is essential reading for nurses or operating department practitioners (ODPs) who perform scrub, circulating, anaesthetic and recovery roles whilst caring for perioperative patients, as well as nursing and ODP students working in perioperative care. New edition of a successful text for perioperative practitioners and students Emphasises holistic patient centred care Focused on key skills and knowledge required by practitioners Explores the evidence-base for safe and effective practice
Also available in printed form ISBN 9781405188500
Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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