Perioperative Services: Administration, Resource Management, and Patient Care

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:

• 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
• An updated chapter on Legal Considerations which also includes a discussion of informed consent
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 1. Administration
  • Organization-wide Change Initiatives: Lessons Learned
  • Informed Consent in the Delivery of Perioperative Services
  • Legal Considerations
  • New Service or Expansion of Existing Service
  • Keeping the OR Environment Safe
  • Research Utilization
  • Magnet Recognition: Perioperative Focus
• 2. Resource Management
  • Staffing
  • Scheduling
  • Disruptive Behavior: Managing Conflict
  • Computerization of Perioperative Data
  • Budgeting for Financial Success
  • Communication in the Perioperative Care Setting
  • Technology Purchases
• 3. Patient Care
  • Documentation
  • Patient- and Family-Centered Care
  • Ethical Considerations
  • Infection Control
  • Minimally Invasive Surgery