Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery - E-Book

by RN Rothrock PhD

Overview

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Perioperative** Gain the knowledge and skills you need to provide safe, effective perioperative nursing care! Alexander’s Care of the Patient in Surgery, 17th Edition is the definitive resource for nurses and surgical technologists training for a career in the operating room. Illustrated, step-by-step instructions cover patient care in more than 400 surgical interventions, including patient positioning, instrumentation, and postoperative care. Along with the latest on robotic surgery and a review of evidence-based guidelines, this edition includes new coverage of COVID-19 and gender affirmation surgery. From well-known educator Jane C. Rothrock — and with every chapter authored by an expert nurse — Alexander’s gives you the tools you need to pass the CNOR^© certification exam and succeed in the surgical setting.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323827256
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/01/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1216
File size:	126 MB
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Table of Contents

UNIT I Foundations for Practice
1 Concepts Basic to Perioperative Nursing
2 Patient Safety and Risk Management
3 Workplace Issues and Staff Safety
4 Infection Prevention and Control
5 Anesthesia
6 Positioning the Patient for Surgery
7 Sutures, Sharps, and Instruments
8 Surgical Modalities
9 Wound Healing, Dressings, and Drains
10 Postoperative Patient Care and Pain Management
UNIT II Surgical Interventions
11 Gastrointestinal Surgery
12 Surgery of the Biliary Tract, Pancreas, Liver, and Spleen
13 Hernia Repair
14 Gynecologic and Obstetric Surgery
15 Genitourinary Surgery
16 Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
17 Breast Surgery
18 Ophthalmic Surgery
19 Otorhinolaryngologic Surgery
20 Orthopedic Surgery
21 Neurosurgery
22 Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
23 Thoracic Surgery
24 Vascular Surgery
25 Cardiac Surgery
UNIT III Special Considerations
26 Pediatric Surgery
27 Geriatric Surgery
28 Trauma Surgery
29 Integrative Health Practices
APPENDIX A Laboratory Values
Illustration Credits
Index
Special Features