Introducing the newest companion to Phippen & Wells: Perioperative Nursing Practice. This superb review guide helps users to evaluate and validate their knowledge of perioperative nursing practice. Each chapter of the Review consists of an outline of the corresponding chapter in the text and a series of questions and answers.
Key Features
Developed to meet the needs of practicing nurses studying for the CNOR exam, and those seeking to update their understanding of perioperative nursing.Each exercise helps readers to review such essential skills as patient assessment and diagnosis, planning patient care, transferring the patient, assisting the anesthetist, patient and family teaching, creating and maintaining a sterile field, handling tissues with instruments, facilitating postoperative care, and much more.
Readers can also test their knowledge of how each of these skills applies to the full range of surgical specialities, from cardiac and gynecologic to transplantation and vascular - and more!
Author Information
By Bettyann Hutchisson, RN, BSN, CNOR, Nurse Clinician, Perioperative Education, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; Mark L. Phippen, RN, MN, CNOR, Clinical Educator, Valleylab, Inc., Boulder, CO and Maryann Papanier Wells, PhD, RN, FAAN, Nurse Manager, Perioperative Nursing, The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Preparation of the Patient for the Procedure: Legal and Ethical Considerations · Preparation of the Patient for the Procedures: Physical, Physiological, and Emotional Considerations · Transferring the Patient · Assisting the Anesthesia Provider · Establishing and Maintaining a Sterile Field · Performing Sponge, Sharp, and Instrument Counts · Providing Instruments, Equipment, and Supplies · Administering Drugs and Solutions · Physiologically Monitoring the Patient · Monitoring and Controlling the Environment · Positioning the Patient · Handling Cultures and Specimins · Handling Tissues with Instruments · Providing Hemostasis · Facilitating Care after the Operative or Invasive Procedure