Perioperative Care
It involves the care of clients before, during, and after surgery and some other invasive procedures.
What is Perioperative Nursing?
Values, beliefs, and practices that people from all culture shares.
What are Culture Universals?
Any microorganisms capable of producing disease.
What is Pathogen?
A stationary clot adhering to the wall of a vessel.
What is Thrombus?
The bacteria continue to grow despite the antibacterial.
What is Resistance?
These are serious and costly errors resulting in severe consequences for the patient, and the mostly preventable.
What are "Never Events?"
Values, beliefs and practices that are special or unique to a culture.
What are Culture specifics?
The ability of microorganisms to cause disease.
What is Pathogenicity?
A clot that travels in the bloodstream.
What is Embolus?
The antidote for warfarin.
What is Vitamin K?
An alternative form of anesthesia that provides intravenous sedation and analgesia without producing unconsciousness.
What is Conscious Sedation?
Something recurrent, based on facts.
What are Archetypes?
These cells have the ability to recognize healthy self cells and not attempt to attack or destroy them.
What are White blood cells?
Elastic stockings that compress superficial leg veins and promote venous return.
What are Antiembolism stockings (TED hose)?
The antidote for heparin.
What is protamine sulfate?
It produces rapid unconsciousness and loss of sensation.
What is General Anesthesia?
Widely held but oversimplified beliefs that have no basis in facts.
What are Stereotypes?
Infections that can be transmitted from person to person.
What are Communicable infections?
Cuffs that surround the legs and inflate and deflate to promote venous return to the heart.
What are Sequential compression devices?
The clotting test used to measure the effect of warfarin.
What is Prothrombin Time?
The injection of an anesthetic into the cerebrospinal fluid in the subarachnoid space.
What is Spinal Anesthesia?
Transcultural theorist.
Who is Madeleine Leiniger?
Redness, warmth, swelling, pain, and loss of function.
What are the 5 Cardinal signs of inflammation?
A blood clot forms in the deep vein usually in the leg.
What is Deep Vein Thrombosis?
The clotting tests used to measure the effect of Heparin.
What are Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT) and Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (APTT)?