Minor surgical procedures for nurses and allied healthcare professionals
By: edited by Shirley Martin.
Contributors: Martin, Shirley
Series: Wiley series in nursing
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780470019900
Subjects: Surgery, Minor; Preoperative care; Postoperative care; Surgical Procedures, Minor -- methods; Perioperative Care -- methods; Preoperative Care -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Starting out : the wider picture / Shirley Martin; title: Modernisation : role redesign to optimise patient outcomes / John Beesley; title: Training and education / Barry Paraskeva; title: Nurse prescribing / Anne Clarridge; title: Medico legal aspects of non-medical practitioner roles / Verity Danzieger; title: Communication skills for minor surgery / Debra Nestel; title: Preoperative assessment / Anurag Patel and Sanjay Purkayastha; title: Perioperative management : consent and follow-up / Jennifer Simpson; title: Documentation / Anurag Patel and Sanjay Purkayastha; title: Maintaining asepsis : preventing infection of the surgical site / Christine McDougall; title: The theatre environment and equipment / Parvinderpal Sains; title: Recognising skin lesions / Julia Schofield; title: Basic anatomy and techniques of excising skin lesions / Gregory Thomas and Sanjay Purkayastha; title: Local anaesthesia for minor operative procedures / David Lomax and Kausi Rao; title: Operative techniques for minor surgical procedures / Rajesh Aggarwal; title: Haemostasis and cautery for minor procedures / Parvinderpal Sains; title: Future prospects / Shirley Martin.