Perioperative Nursing Practice

Abstract

Part 1 Basic competencies: a conceptual model for perioperative nursing practice patient assessment and diagnosis - a functional health patterns approach planning patient care - a functional health patterns approach transferring the patient patient and family education creating and maintaining a sterile field performing sponge, sharps. and instrument counts providing instrument, equipment and supplies administering drugs and solutions physiologically monitoring the patient monitoring and controlling the environment positioning the patient handling cultures and specimens evaluating patient care - a functional health patterns approach. Part 2 Competencies for the RNFA: preparing the patient for surgery handling tissue with instruments - providing exposure and suturing providing hemostasis postoperative care of the patient. Part 3 Procedures and surgery: assisting the anaesthetist with (1) the administration of anaesthesia, (2) complications, (3) emergencies and (4) blood transfusions general surgery vascular surgery cardiac surgery transplantation surgery plastic surgery neurosurgery urologic surgery orthopaedic surgery gynaecologic surgery otolaryngologic surgery. Part 4 Special populations: paediatric surgery geriatric surgery. Part 5 Perioperative issues - management and education: perioperative staff development developing perioperative nursing department policies and procedures financial management for the perioperative nurse staffing and scheduling standards of performance quality improvement, continuous quality care dealing with regulatory bodies legislative trends in nursing implications for the perioperative nurse encroachment of practice implications for the perioperative nurse professional involvement, an issue of survival entrepreneurship.