Perioperative standards and recommended practices / Association of periOperative Registered Nurses ; clinical editor, Ramona Conner ; contributing authors, Byron Burlingame ... [et al.].
By: AORN.
Contributor(s): Burlingame, Byron | Conner, Ramona.
Publisher: Denver, Colo. : AORN, c2014Edition: 2014 ed.Description: iv, 679 p. ; 28 cm.ISBN: 1888460830; 9781888460834.Other title: AORN perioperative standards and recommended practices | AORN Standards, recommended practices, and guidelines | Standards, recommended practices, and guidelines.Subject(s): AORN | Perioperative Nursing -- standards -- Practice Guideline | Clinical Protocols | Nurse's Practice Patterns | Operating Room Nursing -- standards -- Practice GuidelineGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"For inpatient and ambulatory settings"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction to the 2014 edition -- AORN mission, vision, and values -- SECTION I: Standards of perioperative nursing practice -- SECTION II: Recommended practices for perioperative nursing -- Introduction to the AORN recommended practices -- Aseptic practice: Attire, Surgical -- Hand hygiene -- Preoperative patient skin antisepsis -- Sterile technique -- Traffic patterns -- Equipment and product safety: Electrosurgery -- Laser safety -- Minimally invasive surgery -- Pneumatic tourniquet -- Product selection -- Surgical tissue banking -- Patient worker safety: environment of care -- Environmental cleaning -- Medication safety -- Reducing radiological exposure -- Retained surgical items - prevention of -- Sharps safety -- Specimen care and handling -- Transmissible infections - prevention of -- Patient care: Deep vein thrombosis-prevention of -- Hypothermia - prevention of -- Information management -- Local anesthesia - managing the patient receiving -- Moderate sedation / analgesia - managing the patient receiving -- Positioning the patient -- Transfer of patient care information -- Sterilization and disinfection: anesthesia equipment - cleaning, handling, and processing -- Disinfection - high-level -- Flexible endoscopes - cleaning and processing -- Instruments and powered equipment - cleaning and care of -- Packaging systems - selection and use -- Sterilization -- SECTION III: Guidance statements -- Health care industry representative - role of the -- Perioperative staffing -- Safe on-call practices -- Safe patient handling and movement -- SECTION IV: Additional resources -- Appendix A: Listing of AORN position statements -- Appendix B: Policy and procedure templates for use with recommended practices -- Appendix C: AACD glossary of procedural times -- Appendix D: Quality and performance improvement standards.