Perioperative Procedures

Perioperative Nursing Procedures      

Coming in October 2010, Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills will include 100 perioperative procedures, so your nurses are always ready – before, during, and after surgery.

With more than 1,000 evidence-based procedures, Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills will be the only institution-wide, online, point of care resource that includes perioperative-specific nursing procedures.

Lippincott’s Nursing Procedures and Skills – with new perioperative
procedures – empowers nurses to improve patient care.

Contact us for a free trial today!     

 Perioperative Procedures Available October 2010
1. Accidental exposure to blood or body fluids, OR
2. Anatomic remains disposal, OR
3. Back table instrument arrangement: abdominal procedures
4. Back table instrument arrangement: cardiovascular procedures
5. Back table instrument arrangement: neurosurgical procedures
6. Back table instrument arrangement: orthopedic procedures
7. Back table instrument arrangement: thoracic procedures
8. Biohazardous waste handling, OR
9. Cleaning the OR
10. Culture and tissue handling, OR
11. Death management,  OR
12. Discharge from ambulatory surgery
13. Discharge from PACU
14. Draping for  bariatric surgery
15. Draping for abdominal surgery
16. Draping for cardiac surgery
17. Draping for ear surgery
18. Draping for gynecologic surgery
19. Draping for nasal surgery
20. Draping for neurologic surgery
21. Draping for ophthalmologic surgery
22. Draping for reconstructive surgery
23. Draping for thoracic surgery
24. Draping for throat surgery
25. Draping for total joint surgery
26. Draping for transplant surgery
27. Draping for trauma surgery
28. Draping for urologic surgery
29. Draping the Mayo stand
30. Drying hands and arms, OR
31. Electrosurgical unit (ESU) use, OR
32. Epidural blood patch patient care, PACU
33. Fire prevention and management, OR
34. Frozen section specimen handling, OR        
35. General anesthesia patient care, OR 
36. General anesthesia patient care, PACU  
37. General patient care, PACU
38. Gowning and gloving,  assisting
39. Hand antisepsis, OR
40. Hypothermia prevention, OR
41. Hypothermic patient, care of, PACU
42. Implanted electronic device patient care, OR
43. Implanted electronic device patient care, PACU
44. Incorrect instrument, sponge and sharps counts, OR
45. Infection control, OR
46. Infection control, PACU
47. Instrument counts, OR
48. Local anesthesia patient care, OR 
49. Local anesthesia patient care, PACU 
50. Malignant hyperthermia patient care, OR
51. Malignant hyperthermia patient care, PACU
52. Mayo instrument tray arrangement: abdominal procedures
53. Mayo instrument tray arrangement: cardiovascular procedures
54. Mayo instrument tray arrangement: orthopedic procedures
55. Mayo instrument tray arrangement: thoracic procedures
56. Mayo instrument tray arrangement: neurosurgical procedures
57. Metal fragment disposal, OR
58. Moderate sedation patient care, OR
59. Morbidly obese patient, care of, OR
60. Nausea and vomiting prevention and management, PACU
61. Operating room table use
62. Pain and comfort management, PACU
63. Peripheral nerve block patient care, OR  
64. Peripheral nerve block patient care, PACU
65. Permanent section specimen handling, OR                
66. Pneumatic tourniquet use, OR
67. Positioning: general guidelines
68. Positioning: high lithotomy
69. Positioning: lateral
70. Positioning: low lithotomy
71. Positioning: prone
72. Positioning: sitting
73. Positioning: supine
74. Postoperative assessment, PACU
75. Postoperative patient care, ambulatory surgery
76. Preoperative patient care, ambulatory surgery
77. Preparing a patient for abdominal surgery, OR
78. Preparing a patient for cardiac surgery, OR
79. Preparing a patient for gynecologic surgery, OR
80. Preparing a patient for neurologic surgery, OR
81. Preparing a patient for ophthalmologic surgery, OR
82. Preparing a patient for thoracic surgery, OR
83. Preparing a patient for urologic surgery, OR
84. Preparing the OR environment
85. Regional block patient care, OR  
86. Regional block patient care, PACU  
87. Safe medication practices
88. Sharps counts, OR
89. Sharps disposal, OR
90. Sleep apnea patient care, PACU
91. Sponge counts, OR
92. Steam autoclave use and care, OR
93. Sterile field management, OR
94. Surgical attire, donning
95. Surgical scrub, OR
96. Time-out, OR
97. Surgical site verification, preoperative
98. Traffic patterns, perioperative area
99. Transferring to and from the OR table
100. Wound classification, OR