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Elsevier Science Berry & Kohin'S Operating Room Technique 1St South Saia Edition by Nancymarie Phillips
Berry and Kohn’s Operating Room Technique is designed to meet the needs of educators, learners, caregivers in diverse disciplines, and managerial personnel who care for surgical or interventional patients in many types of environments. Knowing the “why” of patient care is as important as knowing the “how.” Additionally, it is important to stress that outcomes must be evaluated to support evidence-based practice. This text is the book of choice for certification preparation in diverse disciplines and incorporates all elements of the core curricula specified by several accrediting and certifying bodies.
- A user-friendly 12-section arrangement.
- A logical and sequential order of the subject matter.
- Incorporation of the AORN Guidelines for Perioperative Practice and AST’s Core Curriculum for Surgical Technology, 6th edition, to reflect modern perioperative practice.
- A focus on the physiological and psychological considerations of perioperative patients to provide guidelines and standards for planning and implementing safe individualized care.
- Use of the systems approach as a foundation to support solid evidence-based practice to establish patient care procedures in such a way that all team members can identify their roles in a cooperative spirit of safety and efficiency.
In-depth discussion of patients with special needs related to age or health status considerations.
- Discussion of perioperative patient care in inpatient, ambulatory, and alternative sites/locations to highlight considerations based on the setting, as well as the surgical procedure.
- Encouragement of the patient care team to identify and examine personal and professional development issues that influence the manner in which care is rendered.
- Detailed information about the fundamentals of perioperative nursing and surgical technology roles.
- Building of knowledge in a logical sequence—from fundamental concepts to implementation during surgical intervention— to enable readers to apply theory to practice.
- Comprehensive coverage of a broad range of essential topics to provide a thorough understanding of fundamental principles and techniques and an understanding of their applications in various surgical procedures.
- Descriptions of specific surgical procedures in each specialty chapter to assist the learner and caregiver in planning and delivering patient care in the perioperative environment.
- An Evolve website that has learning and teaching aids to enhance the classroom experience and support assimilation of knowledge. For the student, this includes tips for the scrub person and circulating nurse, historical perspectives, student interactive questions, and a glossary. For the instructor, this includes a TEACH manual with a lesson plan, lecture outline, case studies and PowerPoint slides for each chapter; test bank; and collection of all the images in the book.