Section: 4.5 - Perioperative Care | Pediatric Nursing Part 2 | NextGenU.org

  • Student Learning Outcomes:
    Upon completion of this lesson, you will be able to:
    • 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, and cough/deep breathing exercises in postoperative care.
    Approximate time required for the readings for this lesson (at 144 words/minute): 2 hours and 33 minutes.

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    • Required Learning Resources and Activities
    • Read the content of ‘Integrated care across the full patient pathway before, during and after surgery’. (1 minute)

      Center for Perioperative Care, UK

    • Read paragraph under heading ‘Perioperative care’. (2 minutes)

      Journal of Perioperative and Critical Intensive Care Nursing

    • Read the contents of under the heading ‘Pre-op assessment’ and ‘Pre-op education’. (5 minutes)

      Australian Government, Cancer Australia

    • Read the section on ‘Assessment’. (2 minutes)

      Clinics on Colon and Rectal Surgery Journal

    • Read contents of the sections ‘Preoperative evaluation and identification of population at risk’. (5 minutes)

      Therapeutics and Clinical Risks Management Journal

    • Read the entire article. (3 minutes)

      University of Iowa Health Care

    • Read the entire article. (10 minutes)

      Beaumont Health

    • Read the entire article. (2 minutes)

      Australian Government, Cancer Australia

    • 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

    • Read contents of 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

    • Read the entire article. (2 minutes)

      Stanford Children’s Health

    • Read the entire article. (11 minutes)

      Starship Hospital

    • Read the entire article. (5 minutes)

      The Hospital for Sick Children

    • Read the entire article. (4 minutes)

      Government of Alberta, MyHealthAlberta.ca

    • Read the entire article. (21 minutes)

      Anesthesiology (Journal)

    • Read the section ‘Results’. (4 minutes)

      Journal of Research in Nursing

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    • Quiz
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      Quiz: Unit 4.5

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      Combined Unit Exam 2 Quiz

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