BIO 1030

Safety in the Surgical Suite: Part 1: General Safety Issues Safety in OR Medical treatment facilities have a responsibility to provide a safe environment for all patients and staff members. The perioperative nurse must ensure that safety standards are adhered to and should continuously monitor the surgical environment to maintain safe conditions. Nurses who have worked in other areas of the hospital may be aware of basic safety concerns but be unaware of the unusual or different concerns relate...

Specimens Surgical Interventions Surgical interventions may involve removal of samples to assist with diagnosis of a disease process or to determine treatment of a condition. These samples may be body fluids, tissue, or bone. With very few exceptions, any sample that is removed during a surgical procedure is sent to pathology for analysis in accordance to recommendations set by JCAHO and other accrediting organizations. Facility policies and procedures should be reviewed to learn which, if any,...

Medications and Solutions Role of the Perioperative Nurse The importance of knowing the patient's history cannot be overemphasized since the patient's response to preoperative and intraoperative medications and solutions will be potentially affected by these factors. Verifying medications The perioperative nurse is frequently the primary person responsible for verifying that the correct medication or solution, as well as the proper route and dose of the medication or solution, are administered...

Wound Closure and Healing Discuss the relationship between the type of tissue and the appropriate type of suture to be used Identify characteristics of various types of sutures Identify characteristics of various types of needle points Identify characteristics of various types of staplers Name types of skin closure products List the steps that constitute the body's defense mechanism Identify the events that take place in the inflammation phase of healing State the differe...

Sterilization and Disinfection Aseptic technique includes all the methods by which contamination with microorganisms is restricted on the patient, in the environment, equipment and supplies. Sterile technique (surgical asepsis) comprises methods which are designed to exclude all microbes. In order to prevent serious complication to the already compromised surgical patient, it is essential that aseptic technique and sterile technique be practiced with absolute accuracy. Goals of Aseptic and St...