**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase 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 (c) certification exam and succeed in the surgical setting.
Comprehensive coverage includes basic perioperative nursing principles, such as patient and environmental safety, infection prevention, patient positioning, anesthesia and pain management, and the unique…
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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles as an Essential Purchase 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 (c) certification exam and succeed in the surgical setting.
Comprehensive coverage includes basic perioperative nursing principles, such as patient and environmental safety, infection prevention, patient positioning, anesthesia and pain management, and the unique needs of special populations such as pediatric and geriatric patients
Coverage of more than 400 general and specialty surgical interventions includes minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgical procedures, whether performed in a hospital, ambulatory surgery setting, or in a doctor's office
Perioperative nursing considerations are presented within the nursing process framework and include assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, evaluation, discharge planning, and patient and family education
More than 1,000 full-color photos and illustrations show surgical anatomy, procedures, methods, and equipment
Sample plans of care include nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions
Research Highlight and Evidence for Practice boxes discuss recommendations for applying current scientific research to patient care
Robotic-Assisted Surgery boxes highlight a rapidly expanding surgical modality.
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery boxes promote protocols to improve outcomes, reduce the length of stay, and reduce the patient's cost of care
Patient Engagement Exemplar boxes optimize surgical outcomes by addressing AORN guidelines on the issues of patient care and involvement of the patient's family
Patient Safety boxes highlight practices and initiatives for patient safety in the surgical setting
Patient, Family, and Caregiver Education boxes include specific guidelines for preprocedural and/or postprocedural care, potential complications,…
Productspecificaties
- Auteur: Jane C. Rothrock, PhD, RN, CNOR, FAAN (Professor and Director, Perioperative Programs, Delaware County Community College, Media, PA)
- Uitgever: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
- Verschijningsdatum: 2022-09-14
- Aantal pagina's: 1216
- ISBN: 9780323776806
- Thema: Nursing
- BISAC: MEDICAL / Nursing / Reference