Manuals Combined: NURSING CARE OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT, SPECIAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES I & II, SURGICAL METHODS, STERILE PROCEDURES AND WOUND CARE
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Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 771
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWell over 700 total pages ... Surgery encompasses all elements in the scientific care of surgical patients. The operation is the focal point for these patients. It is imperative that the patient comes to the operating room (OR) optimally prepared physically and emotionally before performance of an operative procedure. The persons concerned with and/or contributing to surgical patient care are many. The practical nurse shares a special experience with the patient at this time of great stress and need in his life. Their relationship encompasses feelings, attitudes, and behavior approaches. The nurse's first objective is to promote and establish a meaningful, therapeutic relationship, enabling the provision of individualized care. He, then, is to provide the perioperative nursing care that is required for the safest possible care of the patient and production of a favorable surgical outcome. Any patient who is scheduled to have surgery poses special challenges to personnel entrusted with his care. Every procedure done by (OR) operating room personnel for the patient's operation--from the preoperative skin prep to final closure of the incision--requires thorough mastery of many precision techniques and uncompromising attention to detail in order to safeguard the patient. While in the OR, the patient is cared for by a highly trained team that must function as a unit if the patient's best interest is to be served. You, the OR specialist, are a member of this team. While each patient brings new challenges to the surgical team, there are certain problems and techniques associated with particular kinds of special surgery that can be anticipated. By preparing for these peculiarities of the various specialties, the team can circumvent a great many problems that would otherwise arise. In this subcourse, a large number of operations in various specialties are described, along with special dangers that may attend these particular procedures. The more familiar you become with these, the more effectively you will be able to do your part as a member of the operating room team. Also, in this course, you will study wound healing and wound care, contaminated wounds, and burns. Information you read in this course will aid you in maintaining and improving the health of soldiers.
