Postoperative Care and Complication Management Study Guide
This guide provides an in-depth look at perioperative nursing, essential for patient safety and recovery. It breaks down the surgical process into three phases: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative, outlining key nursing interventions and responsibilities in each. Learn about informed consent, crucial preoperative assessments, and the preparation of patients for surgery. The guide also details the prevention of surgical site infections and the critical monitoring and management of pos
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Phases of Surgery and Perioperative Nursing Care
Promoting Healthy Physiologic Responses in Perioperative Care
This content covers the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of surgery, including nursing responsibilities, informed consent, preoperative assessment, and prevention of surgical site infections.
- Phases of surgery
- Informed consent
- Preoperative assessment
- Nursing responsibilities
- Pain management
- Preoperative education
- Physical preparation
- Preoperative medications
- Surgical risk factors
- Intraoperative nursing functions
- Prevention of surgical site infections
Perioperative Nursing Care: Phases, Complications, and Management
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Promoting Healthy Postoperative Physiologic Responses
Nursing care involves managing postoperative complications, respiratory interventions, nutrition, activity, and elimination issues to promote healing.
- Incisional care
- Dehiscence
- Evisceration
- Atelectasis
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary embolism
- Hemorrhage
- Hypovolemic shock
- Deep vein thrombosis
- Oxygenation
- Pulse oximetry
- Chest physiotherapy
- Bronchodilators
- Mucolytics
- Corticosteroids
- Incentive spirometry
- Pursed lip breathing
- Diet progression
- Enteral nutrition
- Parenteral nutrition
Postoperative Care and Complication Management
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Infections, Antibiotics, and Pain Management
Antibiotics and Infection Management
Information regarding community-associated infection, health care-associated infection, and various antibiotic therapies used to treat bacteria.
- Community-associated infection
- Health care-associated infection
- Clostridioides Difficile
- Prophylactic therapy
- Empiric therapy
- Definitive therapy
- Penicillins
- Cephalosporins
- Carbapenems
- Aminoglycosides
- Macrolides
- Sulfonamides
- Quinolones
- Bactericidal
- Bacteriostatic
- Nephrotoxicity
- Ototoxicity
- MRSA
- VRE
- Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms
Pain Perception and Controlled Drug Schedules
This content explores pain as a subjective symptom and complex phenomenon, the physiologic response to pain, and the five schedules of controlled drugs including specific opioid and nonopioid analgesics.
- Pain perception
- Physiologic response to pain
- Schedule I controlled drugs
- Schedule II controlled drugs
- Schedule III controlled drugs
- Schedule IV controlled drugs
- Schedule V controlled drugs
- Opioid analgesics
- Nonopioid analgesics
- NSAIDs
Fluid, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Balance
Fluid, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Balance
This content covers body systems regulating fluid and electrolyte balance, electrolyte imbalances, and acid-base status interpretation using arterial blood gases.
- Electrolytes
- Potassium
- Sodium
- Calcium
- Magnesium
- Phosphorus
- Hyperkalemia
- Hypokalemia
- Hypernatremia
- Hyponatremia
- Hypercalcemia
- Hypocalcemia
- Hypomagnesemia
- Hypermagnesemia
- Hyperphosphatemia
- Hypophosphatemia
- Acid-Base balance
- Acidosis
- Alkalosis
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