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:
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Standards and guidelines for providing efficient and cost-effective care
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Complete job descriptions for a wide selection of perioperative care
professions
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Hundreds of ready-to-use forms, checklists, and tools that help streamline
procedures
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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:
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Survive the accreditation process
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Protect your facility from lawsuits and liability
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Prepare for renovation
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Tackle budgeting responsibilities
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Deal with staffing and personnel issues
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Ensure quality patient care and management
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Keep pace with advances in infection control
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And much more!
Perioperative Services has been updated to include:
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A new chapter on Informed Consent in the Delivery of Perioperative Services
that takes an in-depth look at litigation exposure and avoidance in the
perioperative setting
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An updated chapter on Legal Considerations which also includes a discussion of
informed consent
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A new section describing the difference between research utilization and
evidence-based practice (EBP) and providing an example of EBP that is relevant
to the perioperative environment
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An updated chapter on Staffing that examines the physical and emotional impact
of 12-hour shifts on nurses and describes how some health care institutions
have created on-premise ‘‘sanctuary spaces’’ for nurses to combat fatigue and
its impact on performance
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A new chapter on Disruptive Behavior: Managing Conflict that shows nursing
professionals how to identify the sources of conflict, embrace conflict as a
natural part of human interaction, and utilize it as a mechanism for internal
growth and external progress
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An updated chapter on Infection Control that provides new material on
infection prevention and control issues and on proper procedures and practices
that can reduce the risk of infection in perioperative practice
View the Highlights for this title."...this book is a practical and concise reference manual that would be beneficial in any manager's library. The ability to update is invaluable in this constant state of change. I highly recommend this manual and welcome it into my library." Tammi Humphrey, RN, BSN, Leesburg Regional Medical Center (AORN Journal)
