Role Transition: Operating Room (OR): (E) Books

This practical pocketbook provides an overview of the scope of day surgical anaesthesia and features simple and ready-to-use suggestions for the selection of drugs, techniques, and protocols to follow in everyday day-case surgical clinical practice.

This timely volume introduces gerioperative care, a new model of surgical care for the elderly designed to improve surgical outcomes and prevent complications through a focus on communication and relationship-centered care. It is the only book to specifically address the care of older adults undergoing surgery, providing practitioners with critical, practical, and theoretical information from the initial decision to have surgery through the first follow-up visit post-discharge.

This book will assist in identifying cause, allowing you to provide more efficient and effective treatment. Reduce the guesswork and trial and error that occurs in treating wounds by targeting the appropriate treatment and treatment products from the start.

Volume One includes the following body systems: Nervous System; Respiratory System; Cardiovascular System; Hematologic System; Fluid and Electrolyte, Acid/Base Imbalances; Gastrointestinal System Volume Two includes the following body systems: Renal System; Reproductive System; Musculoskeletal System Integumentary System; Endocrine System; Immune System; Peri-operative Nursing

Full-color photographs and line illustrations showing scrubbing, gowning and gloving instruments, equipment and supplies anatomy positioning and draping medications sutures Basic set up for a laparoscopic and an open procedure. Aseptic technique refresher. A variety of sutures, their basic materials, and uses. Prepping guidelines as well as a comparison of clipping and shaving. Procedures for basic draping, including AORN draping standards. Suggestions and tips on how to communicate effectively in the OR, including how to handle difficult events and people. Write-on/wipe off pages that let you keep track of surgeon's preferences at various clinical sites.

Provides a framework for thinking in urgent situations that addresses the clinical picture, immediate interventions, focused assessment, stabilizing and monitoring, and follow-up assessment and interventions.

Designed to accompany Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook for Medical-Surgical Nursing, 14th Edition, this concise, portable, full-color handbook gives you quick access to hundreds of test results and their implications for nursing.

Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills & Procedures, 9th Edition, presents 85 key nursing skills in a convenient, A-to-Z format. Step-by-step instructions include full-color photos plus rationales explaining why and how to use specific techniques to help you troubleshoot potential problems and take appropriate actions to address them.

'Nursing Alerts': Coverage of life span considerations as well as complications and emergencies associated with pregnancy and delivery Tools for a thorough general assessment of the adult patient ACLS resuscitation procedures as well as pediatric and neonatal advanced life support information Coverage of tracheostomies, bladder scanners, arterial punctures for blood gas analysis, and documentation The basics of 12-lead interpretation tailored to nurses with little or no 12-lead experience An emphasis on symptom and patient presentation rather than medical diagnosis

Prepare for success on your CNOR certification exam and in perioperative nursing! Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery, 16th Edition is the definitive resource for nurses and surgical technologists training to assist in the operating room.

Highly readable and rich with engaging case studies and learning tools, Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 14th Edition delivers the complete nursing foundation students need in a format designed for the way they like to learn.

Essentials of Perioperative Nursing, Sixth Edition is an essential reference for new perioperative nurses as well as experienced nurses who need a refresher.

Drain's Perianesthesia Nursing: A Critical Care Approach, 6th Edition is the most comprehensive book on the market specifically tailored to perianesthesia nurses. The book features five distinct sections - the PACU, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, nursing care, and special considerations.

Over 2,300 questions in all--2.220 unique to the book and 150 unique to DavisPlus, Over 500 alternate-format questions, including fill-in-the-blank, select-all-that-apply, place-in-order, and figure-labeling questions.

NCLEX-RN® exam preparation for nursing courses covering medical-surgical nursing. A premier resource for NCLEX-RN test prep -- now with Pearson Test Prep* Pearson Reviews & Rationales: Medical-Surgical Nursing has prepared thousands of students for success on the NCLEX-RN exam.

Get the vital concepts, data, and how-to on medical-surgical nursing with the newly updated Medical-Surgical Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, 4th Edition . This guide uses colorful drawings and diagrams to demonstrate the mechanisms and clinical indications of the most common disorders found in each body system.

This classic text teaches a solid foundation of surgical principles and techniques, while maintaining the fundamental focus of perioperative skills: the care of the surgical patient as a unique individual.