The Practical Tool You Need to Streamline Your Operating Room! Perioperative Services: Administration, Resource Management, and Patient Care by Cathy Frye (Contributing Editor), Linda Brazen (Consulting Nurse Editor) List Price: $395.00   Eligible for Free Standard Shipping on U.S. Prepaid Orders Imprint: Aspen Publishers ISBN: 9780834216648 Looseleaf: 1,334 pages Publication Cycle: Supplemented annually Last Updated: 6/1/2010 Automatic Supplementation More Info. Available: Item ships in 3-5 Business Days

Perioperative Services: Administration, Resource Management, and Patient Care provides detailed information for improving your operating room, making it more economical, efficient, and compliant. You'll get fast access to valuable tools and quality support materials, such as policies and procedures, legal forms, guidelines, job descriptions, patient documentation, and more to help you formulate the best approaches to the fast-changing health care marketplace. With Perioperative Services, you'll have: Standards and guidelines for providing efficient and cost-effective care Complete job descriptions for a wide selection of perioperative care professions Hundreds of ready-to-use forms, checklists, and tools that help streamline procedures Expert analysis on hot topics, such as Infection Control, Disaster Planning, Research Utilization, New Technology Purchasing, and more Perioperative Services provides expert policies, procedures, forms, guidelines, and more, help you: Survive the accreditation process Protect your facility from lawsuits and liability Prepare for renovation Tackle budgeting responsibilities Deal with staffing and personnel issues Ensure quality patient care and management Keep pace with advances in infection control And much more! Perioperative Services has been updated to include: New Chapter 1-1, Organization-wide Change Initiatives: Lessons Learned, in which Lorraine Butler, longstanding member of Perioperative Services' Editorial Board, takes a retrospective look at the impact of changes fostered by the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals, IOM's landmark To Err Is Human, the Surgical Care Improvement Project, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' list of "reasonably preventable" conditions, and the efforts of reporting groups such as Leapfrog and HealthGrades. New Appendix 1-7A, Overcoming Magnet Challenges, in which Kathryn Schroeter, an ANA Magnet appraiser, provides insight into three challenges - image, research, and practice governance - that perioperative nurses face. Updated Chapter 2-1, Staffing, in which Marialena Murphy investigates the use of flex staffing and temporary staff, as well as the ramifications - both to staff morale and the bottom line - of employing staff under such arrangements. New Chapter 2-4, Computerization of Perioperative Data, in which Anne Challis, Sherry Church, and Robyn Dang compare the electronic documentation solutions and the phases of electronic health record (EHR) projects with the nursing process. New Chapter 2-7, Communication in the Perioperative Care Setting, in which Suzanne Sortman examines communication styles, challenges, and causes of communication breakdowns and discusses tools that can aid in effective communication among teams and staff in the perioperative arena. View the Highlights for this title. Part 1: Administration Organizationwide Change Initiatives: Lessons Learned Preparing for a Joint Commission Survey Legal Considerations New Service or Expansion of Existing Service Planning and Design of the Surgical Suite Disaster Planning in the Perioperative Environment Bioterrorism Questionnaire Research Utilization Magnet Recognition: Perioperative Focus Overcoming Magnet Challenges Part 2: Resource Management Staffing Scheduling Materials Management Sterile Processing Planning and Design Computerization of Perioperative Data Glossary of Technical Terms Writing the Information System RFP Budgeting for Financial Success Cost Benefit Analysis: Its Application in a Health Care Facility Strategies for an Economic Downturn Communication in the Perioperative Care Setting New Technology Purchases Terms Writing a Business Plan Sample Business Plan Computerization of the Sterile Processing Department Part 3: Patient Care Documentation Policies and Procedures Clinical Guideline for the Prevention of Unplanned Perioperative Hypothermia Integration of Clinical Pathways into Case Management Guidelines for AORN Clinical Path Template Infection Control Zero Tolerance for Preventable Hospital-Acquired Infections Minimally Invasive Surgery: Developing a Comprehensive Operating Room Program Statements Regarding MIS from the American College of Surgeons Ethical Considerations Ethical Issues in Pain Management Creating the Culture that Increases Safety "...this book is a practical and concise reference manual that would be beneficial in any manager's library. 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