Section: 7.3 - Perioperative Care | Fundamentals of Nursing | NextGenU.org
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Student Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the purpose of perioperative nursing care.
- Apply the nursing process to the perioperative setting.
- Discuss the importance of preoperative client education.
- Describe the importance of ROM, turning, cough/deep-breathing exercises in postoperative care.
Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 1 hour and 10 minutes.
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Required Learning Resources and Activities
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Read the content under "Integrated care across the full patient pathway before, during and after surgery." (1 minute)
Center for Perioperative Care, UK -
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Read paragraph under the section "Perioperative care." (2 minutes)
Journal of Perioperative and Critical Intensive Care Nursing -
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Read the content under the headings "Pre-op assessment" and "Pre-op education." (5 minutes)
Australian Government, Cancer Australia -
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Read the section on "Assessment." (2 minutes).
Clinics on Colon and Rectal Surgery Journal -
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Read the content under section "Preoperative evaluation and identification of population at risk." (5 minutes)
Therapeutics and Clinical Risks Management Journal -
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Read the entire article. (3 minutes)
University of Iowa Health Care -
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Read the entire article. (2 minutes).
Australian Government, Cancer Australia -
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Read the contents under the headings "Anaesthetic Nurse", "Circulating Nurse", "Instrument Nurse", "Post Anaesthesia Care Unit nurse", and "Pre admission and day surgery nurse." (9 minutes)
Australian College of Perioperative Nurses -
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Read the entire article. (14 minutes).
Nursing Times, EMAP Publishing Limited -
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Read the entire article. (10 minutes)
Nursing Times, EMAP Publishing Limited -
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Read content under the sections "Prejudice and misconceptions that limit postoperative pain treatment in opioid-tolerant patients," "Postoperative pain" and "Perioperative management of opioid abusers." (7 minutes).
Therapeutics and Clinical Risks Management Journal -
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Read the content under the heading "Possible side effects of cancer surgery." (6 minutes)
American Cancer Society -
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Read the entire article. (4 minutes)
Government of Alberta, MyHealthAlberta.ca -
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Slide Deck Presentation
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Quiz Unit
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Quiz: Unit 7.3
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