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By
Donna Watson, RN, MSN, CNOR, ARNP, FNP-C, Perioperative Nursing Consultant, Family Nurse Practitioner; President Elect-AORN; Nursing Link, West Linn, OR
Description
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.
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 Policy
4. Competence, Nursing Practice, and Safe Patient Care
Unit II: Patient Safety
5. Perioperative
Safe Medication Use: A Focused Review
6. Fire Prevention in the Perioperative Setting: Perioperative Fires Can Occur Everywhere
7. Bloodless Surgery and Patient Safety Issues
8. Perioperative Patient Safety and Procedural Sedation
9. 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 Setting
11. To Count or Not to Count: A
Surgical Misadventure
12. Anesthesia and Perioperative Safety
13. Preventing Surgical Site Infections
14. Prevention
of Positioning Injuries
15. Normothermia Management: Prevention of Harm from Perioperative Hypothermia
16. Electrosurgery
Unit III: Workplace Safety
17. Workplace Safety Current Issues & Trends
18. Hazards from
Surgical Smoke: Decreasing Your Risk
19. Bloodborne Pathogens
20. Laser Risks and Preventive Measures for Staff
21. Preventing Back Injuries: Patient Transfer and Mobility
22. Latex Allergy
23. Minimizing Radiation Exposure
24. Infectious Disease Exposure
25. Dealing with Disruptive Behavior in the Perioperative Setting
Unit IV:
Looking Ahead
26. Safety in the Perioperative Setting: Vendor Support
27. Using Human Factors to Balance Your
Operating Room
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 432 pages, publication date: MAR-2010
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-06985-4
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 2 Dec 2009
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