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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 617.0231
EAN num: 9780323039277
ISBN number: 0323039278
Label: Mosby
Manufacturer: Mosby
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 1280
Printing Date: November 30, 2006
Publishing house: Mosby
Sale Popularity Level: 14838
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For more than 60 years, ALEXANDER'S CARE OF THE PATIENT IN SURGERY has been an essential, reliable resource for perioperative nursing. The detailed, state-of-the-art information in this edition reflects current procedures and promotes the delivery of comprehensive patient care. This text provides nurses with the tools needed to deliver safe, cost-effective, high-quality patient care.
- More than 400 contemporary and traditional specialty surgical interventions, in addition to numerous minimally invasive surgical procedures, are explained.
- Approximately 1,000 full-colour illustrations and photos build familiarity with surgical anatomy, procedures, methods and equipment.
- Places a strong emphasis on patient education and discharge planning, as well as patient safety.
- Best Practice boxes apply evidence-based practice to perioperative nursing.
- Sample Plans of Care link interventions to clearly identified outcomes.
- Research Highlight boxes translate research into practice for patient care.
- Addresses Emergency preparedness and bioterrorism considerations.
- Ambulatory, pediatric, geriatric, trauma surgeries, as well as complementary and alternative therapies, are given special attention.
- History boxes summarize significant historical events related to surgery and perioperative nursing.
- The latest invasive and non-invasive technological advances related to surgical procedures, including areas such as interventional radiology, are featured.
- Patient and Family Education boxes offer guidelines for pre- and post-procedural care, side effects and complications, discharge/follow-up care, home care, psychosocial care and referrals.
- Surgical Pharmacology tables summarize the drugs most commonly used for specific surgical procedures, including generic and trade names, purpose/description and pharmacokinetics.
- Patient Safety boxes highlight recent JCAHO initiatives designed to prioritize patient safety.
- Recent OSHA guidelines regarding workplace safety are emphasized.
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I ran across this text in the OR nurse's lounge and found it highly fascinating. The other nurses recommended it to me, so I hopped on Amazon and found one. The prices have come down tremendously since last year. This text is not full of PhD jargon. It's well-written, easy to understand for someone with just an LPN background. I really like it.
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This newer version of Alexander's Patient in Surgery is not as useful as the older versions as they took out the list of surgical instruments set up lst for scrub techs to use as a guide line. This book shows a select group of instruments but the old versions had an actual list of everything you might need for that procedure.
I'm very disappointed with this change. Thank goodness I still have the older version to resort back to.
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For every case am presented with, I use this book to prepare my 20-page OR report. Am learning a lot from it. Because of it my grades are high.
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Buy this book if you want to learn the surgical process. It sets the standard for surgical textbooks.
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This book really helped me though out my preceptorship in the operating room. I was thrown in to this unit as a nursing student. the facility had never taken on senior nursing students in a long term segment (7 weeks) and didn't have any idea what to teach me or what to do with me. My preceptor handed me this book and by the end i was able to circulate and scrub on minor cases with complete confidence in what i was doing. it is concise in some areas, and detailed where it needs to be, gives great explinations and rationals. the only problem i found was the different tools. The west coast and the east coast have different names for the instruments, and the ones named in the book are more consistant with the names in the west. but other than that. love love loved it
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