Alexander’s Care of the Patient in Surgery

Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Perioperative Nursing

Enhance your perioperative nursing skills and knowledge with Alexander’s Care of the Patient in Surgery, 17th Edition. This comprehensive guide is an essential resource for nurses and surgical technologists who aspire to excel in the operating room. With illustrated, step-by-step instructions covering patient care across more than 400 surgical interventions, this edition is designed to prepare you for real-world challenges in perioperative nursing.

This definitive resource includes:

• • In-Depth Coverage: Comprehensive insights into basic perioperative nursing principles such as patient and environmental safety, infection prevention, patient positioning, anesthesia, and pain management. Special considerations for pediatric and geriatric patients are also included.
  • Extensive Surgical Intervention Details: Detailed coverage of over 400 general and specialty surgical interventions, including minimally invasive and robotic-assisted procedures in various settings like hospitals and outpatient surgery centers.
  • Nursing Process Framework: Each chapter is organized around the nursing process, providing a clear pathway for assessment, nursing diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, evaluation, and patient education.

Authors:
Jane C. Rothrock PhD RN CNOR FAAN (Author)
Edition:
17th
Publication Date:
August 22, 2022
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