Fast Facts for the Operating Room Nurse: An Orientation and Care Guide

This comprehensive guide is a must-have for any perioperative nurse, providing essential information needed daily to provide optimal care to every patient.

With newly updated content reflecting 2017 AORN guidelines and evidence-based clinical practice knowledge, this handy resource covers patient safety, the surgical environment, critical thinking, immediate decisionmaking, and perioperative skills.

The text is well-organized and easy to use, with complex skills and techniques broken down into simple, bulleted format.

Each chapter introduces concepts and sets clear learning objectives, and self-assessment questions reinforce requisite knowledge.

Highlights of the second edition include fully updated content on hand hygiene, minimally invasive surgery, patient information management, surgical smoke safety, safe use of energy-generating devices, hypothermia, sterilization and central processing, robotic surgery, and levels of sedation.

Don't miss out on this valuable resource for your perioperative nursing practice!