This comprehensive reference reflects the latest standards of practice. Focusing on the perioperative-nursing continuum, preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care as an organisationalframework. This edition presents sections on home health care and discharge planning, management of UAPs and cross training, information systems, ethical and legal issues and extensively illustrated surgical procedures.Reflects the latest AORN standards of practice.Covers all of the most recent techniques and procedures in the field of perioperative nursing. Presents sections on home health care and discharge planning management of UAPs and cross-training information systems ethical and legal issues and much more.Includes perspectives on post anesthesia care (first and second stages of recovery). Features over 850 illustrations, including meticulous depictions of surgical procedures.
This book is an excellent resource for the RN practicing in the OR. It covers state of the art technology while discussing basic concepts of nursing and how they are adapted to care of the patient in the OR. I also teach and this is an excellent reference for students in the OR. Mark Phippen and MaryAnn Wells have written this book in their usual comprehensive style.
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