Caring for the Perioperative Patient: (Essential Clinical Skills 2nd edition)
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Caring for the Perioperative Patient: (Essential Clinical Skills 2nd edition)

Caring for the Perioperative Patient: (Essential Clinical Skills 2nd edition)

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Paul Wicker (Author) Joy O'Neill (Author)  

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Caring for the Perioperative Patient is a practical, evidence-based and innovative book that identifies and discusses the essential core skills and knowledge required by perioperative practitioners to care for their patients. Divided into two sections, the first explores core perioperative issues, such as pharmacology, communication, homeostasis, and equipment. The second part of the book looks at more specific perioperative practice issues, including enhanced competence, patient preparation, and care of the patient during anaesthesia, surgery, and recovery. This updated new edition is skills-focused and uses examples of techniques or procedures to illustrate how skills can be applied in perioperative practice. It is essential reading for nurses or operating department practitioners (ODPs) who perform scrub, circulating, anaesthetic and recovery roles whilst caring for perioperative patients, as well as nursing and ODP students working in perioperative care. New edition of a successful text for perioperative practitioners and students Emphasises holistic patient centred care Focused on key skills and knowledge required by practitioners Explores the evidence-base for safe and effective practice
Paul Wicker is Programme Leader of the Diploma in Operating Department Practice at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Liverpool Joy O'Neill is Training and Development Co-ordinator in the Theatre Department at Royal Oldham Hospital, Pennine Acute NHS Hospital Trust
  • Contributor: Paul Wicker
  • Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN13: 9781405188500
  • Number of Pages: 448
  • Packaged Dimensions: 125x188x24mm
  • Packaged Weight: 417
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Release Date: 2010-04-13
  • Series: Essential Clinical Skills
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Paul Wicker is Programme Leader of the Diploma in Operating Department Practice at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, Liverpool Joy O'Neill is Training and Development Co-ordinator in the Theatre Department at Royal Oldham Hospital, Pennine Acute NHS Hospital Trust

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