NUR 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Patient Education, Etiology, Anesthetic
5 Jun 2019
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Didactic content: epidemiology, pathology, etiology, clinical manifestations, medical management: medications; therapies, current trends: guidelines; evidence-based practice. Qsen competencies: quality & safety education for nurses: patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, quality improvement. Aspects of patient care: basic care and comfort, health promotion and maintenance, pharmacological and parenteral therapies, physiological adaptation, reduction of risk potential. Glossary: ambulatory surgery, bariatric: morbid obesity, minimum of 30-40 lbs. over average weight, affects the surgery (type of table, etc. ) Perioperative phases of care: nurses have a range of activities during, preoperative phase. Intraoperative phase: postoperative phase, often considered a critical care unit in most hospitals, examples of nursing activities throughout perioperative period chart 17-1, pg. Standards of care: association of perioperative registered nurses (aorn) standards for phases of care, perioperative nursing data set (pnds, safety, physiologic responses, behavioral responses, health care systems. Less invasive: sterile technique, equipment built into the ceilings of or, anesthesia.
