Planning care for surgical patients

Part 1 book "Surgical patient care for veterinary technicians and nurses" includes content: History and physical examination, preoperative planning, asepsis and infection control.

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Varied and fragmented care plans undertaken by different practitioners currently expose surgical patients to lapses in expected care, increase the chance for operational mistakes and accidents, and often result in unnecessary care.

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The formal caregivers: a multi-professional team collaborates and communicates among a wide range of health care settings to meet discharge needs. These needs require integrated and coordinated care.

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Today’s nurses enter a realm of opportunities and challenges for providing high-quality, evidence-based care in traditional as well as new and innovative health care settings. The rapid changes in health care mandate that nurses be prepared to provide or plan care across the continuum of settings—from hospital or clinic, to home, to community agencies or hospice settings—and during all phases of illness. Recent research has indicated that nurses make significant contributions to the health care outcomes of patients who are hospitalized.

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Management of acute pain, especially post-operative pain, in patients on high dose opioids is a challenge that requires in-depth knowledge of pharmacokinetics and the formulation of a careful management plan to avoid withdrawal symptoms and inadequate pain management. • Chronic pain after cancer surgery may occur in up to 50% of patients. Risk factors for the development of chronic pain after breast cancer surgery include: young age, chemo and radiotherapy, poor post-operative pain control and certain surgical factors.

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EngenderHealth, a non-profit organisation that works in reproductive health, has devised a "client-orientated, provider-efficient" (COPE) approach to improve quality of care and motivate staff. COPE offers guidance for providers to assess their services, interview patients, and examine the time that they spend at clinics. This gives staff a better understanding of patients' perspectives, and enables them to develop a plan of action to improve quality. In some clinics, COPE has resulted in staff staggering their lunch breaks to reduce patients' waiting time.

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