Perioperative Safety
By- Donna Watson, RN, MSN, CNOR, ARNP-BC, FNP-C, Senior Clinical Educator, Covidien Energy-Based Devices, Boulder, CO
The only book devoted to this increasingly important issue, Perioperative Safety helps you reduce risk in a setting where even small errors can lead to life-threatening complications. Expert author Donna Watson addresses essential safety principles and concepts, covering patient safety with topics such as the latest safety strategies and initiatives, perioperative safe medication use, preventing infections, anesthesia safety, normothermia management, and electrosurgery. Coverage of staff and workplace safety helps you minimize risk with bloodborne pathogens, latex allergy, the use of lasers, and radiation exposure. Case studies show the application of safety concepts in real-world situations.
Paperback, 424 Pages
Published: March 2010
Imprint: Mosby
ISBN: 978-0-323-06985-4
Contents
Unit I: Overview of Perioperative Safety
1. Essential Components for a Patient Safety Strategy
2. Initiatives to Improve Patient Safety
3. Use of MEDMARX Data for the Support and Development of Perioperative Medication Policy4. Competence, Nursing Practice, and Safe Patient Care
Unit II: Patient Safety5. Perioperative Safe Medication Use: A Focused Review
6. Fire Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Perioperative Fires Can Occur Everywhere7. Bloodless Surgery and Patient Safety Issues
8. Perioperative Patient Safety and Procedural Sedation9. Incidence of Deep Venous Thrombosis in the Surgical Patient Population and Prophylactic Measures to Reduce Occurrence
10. Preventative Measures for Wrong Site, Wrong Person and Wrong Procedure Errors in the Perioperative Setting11. To Count or Not to Count: A Surgical Misadventure
12. Anesthesia and Perioperative Safety13. Preventing Surgical Site Infections
14. Prevention of Positioning Injuries15. Normothermia Management: Prevention of Harm from Perioperative Hypothermia
16. ElectrosurgeryUnit III: Workplace Safety
17. Workplace Safety Current Issues & Trends18. Hazards from Surgical Smoke: Decreasing Your Risk
19. Bloodborne Pathogens20. Laser Risks and Preventive Measures for Staff
21. Preventing Back Injuries: Patient Transfer and Mobility22. Latex Allergy
23. Minimizing Radiation Exposure24. Infectious Disease Exposure
25. Dealing with Disruptive Behavior in the Perioperative SettingUnit IV: Looking Ahead
26. Safety in the Perioperative Setting: Vendor Support27. Using Human Factors to Balance Your Operating Room
