Minor surgical procedures for nurses and allied healthcare professionals / edited by Shirley Martin

Published: Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2007]
Copyright Date: ©2007
Physical Description: viii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators: Martin, Shirley (Shirley Y.)

Availability

Finding items...

Series

Wiley series in nursing

Contents

Starting out : the wider picture / Shirley Martin -- Modernisation : role redesign to optimise patient outcomes / John Beesley -- Training and education / Barry Paraskeva -- Nurse prescribing / Anne Clarridge -- Medico legal aspects of non-medical practitioner roles / Verity Danzieger -- Communication skills for minor surgery / Debra Nestel -- Preoperative assessment / Anurag Patel and Sanjay Purkayastha -- Perioperative management : consent and follow-up / Jennifer Simpson -- Documentation / Anurag Patel and Sanjay Purkayastha -- Maintaining asepsis : preventing infection of the surgical site / Christine McDougall -- The theatre environment and equipment / Parvinderpal Sains -- Recognising skin lesions / Julia Schofield -- Basic anatomy and techniques of excising skin lesions / Gregory Thomas and Sanjay Purkayastha -- Local anaesthesia for minor operative procedures / David Lomax and Kausi Rao -- Operative techniques for minor surgical procedures / Rajesh Aggarwal -- Haemostasis and cautery for minor procedures / Parvinderpal Sains -- Future prospects / Shirley Martin.

Subject(s)

ISBN

0470019905 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780470019900 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

View MARC record | catkey: 3944303