CARING FOR SURGICAL PATIENTS: Study Guide for Students of Higher Educational Medical Institutions

Authors

Dihtyar V. А. (ed)
MD, professor, STATE INSTITUTION "DNIPROPETROVSK MEDICAL ACADEMY MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF UKRAINE" DNIPRO MEDICAL INSTITUTE OF TRADITIONAL AND NON-TRADITIONAL MEDICINE
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal/025

Synopsis

This study guide has been prepared in accordance with applicable requirements of the “Caring for Patients” program. It aims at creating a theoretical framework for the effective mastering of the course on the care for surgical patients. Moreover, it sets out the basic principles of organization of work and the mode of a surgical hospital as well as deontological and ethical questions of patient care, clinical hygiene aspects for patients and personnel, particular features of preparation of patients for diagnostic tests and surgical interventions, and covers the basic principles of care for patients with various surgical pathologies.

Chapters

  • Theme 1. Introduction to the surgery. Hygiene in surgery. Principles of work of nurses in conditions of the surgical department
  • Theme 2. Organization of work in a clean dressing. Desmurgy. Concept on about bandage and bandaging. Bandage and its elements. Bandaging material and its substitutes. Classification of bandages. Technique of the triangular, four - tailed bandages, dressin
  • Theme 3. Medical care for patients, operated on the abdominal cavity organs, perineum, legs. Abdomen, crotch, legs bandages. Medical care for patients with fractures. Plaster technique. Bleeding control and types of bleeding
  • Theme 4. Antiseptic. Medical care for patients with purulent pathology. Sterilization of the dressings and surgical linen. Organization of work in the operating room. Surgical scrubbing of the surgeon hands and surgical field
  • Theme 5. Organization of work in the sterilization room. Preparation and sterilization of the cutting, optical, general & surgical instruments. Sterilization of suture material
  • Theme 6. Surgery, preparing of patients for the operation. Care for patients in a postoperative period
  • Tests for control

References

Brunner and Suddarth’s textbook of medical-surgical nursing. – 7th ed./ [edited by] Suzanne C. Smeltzer, Brenda G. Bare, 1998

Ashcraft’Pediatric Surgery – 6th ed. [edited by] Gorge W. Holcomd, J. Patrick Murphy,2014;147-245: 531-580.

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December 15, 2020
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978-83-960097-0-8