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Core Curriculum for Perianesthesia Nursing Practice

Core Curriculum for Perianesthesia Nursing Practice


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This volume seeks to deliver the core content for the CPAN exam in an accessible outline format. Sponsored by the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN), it contains chapter objectives and review questions with answers to make the information easier to master. This new edition features a new chapter on conscious sedation, and an expanded chapter on the principles of teaching and learning that examines the paediatric, adult, and geriatric patient. It encompasses all areas of the CPAN and most areas of the CAPA certification exams, including management, clinical practice, and legal research.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 The profession of perianaesthesia care nursing: evolution of perianaesthesia care; nursing practice, nursing standards, and nursing process; nursing research; legal issues in perianaesthesia care nursing; PACU management; teaching and learning needs of the surgical patient. Part 2 Life span considerations in PACU practice: the elderly patient; the paediatric patient. Part 3 The conceptual basis for PACU practice: anaesthetic agents and adjuncts; conscious sedation; perianaesthesia respiratory care; interpretation of acid-base balance; fluid and electrolyte balance; the haematologic system; perianaesthesia complications - respiratory, cardiac and neurologic; basic and advanced cardiac life support. Part 4 Systems review: malignant hyperthermia; the cardiac surgical patient; the peripheral vascular surgical patient; the pulmonary surgical patient; the neurosurgical patient; the urologic surgical patient; the urologic surgical patient; the gastrointestinal surgical patient; the gynaecologic surgical patient; the obstetric surgical patient; the orthopaedic surgical patient; the endocrine surgical patient; the otorhinolarygologic and head and neck surgical patient; the ophthalmic surgical patient; the plastic surgery and burn patient. Part 5 Special topics: the surgical patient in the ambulatory or short-stay setting; pain assessment and management; haemodynamic monitoring; test-taking techniques.

Review :
Review of the 3rd Edition: "Not only does the book offer content for a nurse planning to sit for one of the certification exams, it is an excellent clinical reference book for nurses practising in postanesthesia or ambulatory surgery nursing...Highly recommend." -Breathline


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780721678962
  • Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Publisher Imprint: W B Saunders Co Ltd
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1352 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0721678963
  • Publisher Date: /11/1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 254 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 178 mm


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