Competency for Safe Patient Care During Operative and Invasive Procedures

This comprehensive reference should be an essential tool, used by all perioperative nurses, in setting and sustaining the highest standards of surgical patient care. This book can be used to formulate, update and validate standards of professional practice. The book not only includes procedures done in the operating room, but also covers procedures done in radiology and the cardiac catheterization laboratory. In addition this book can be used to prepare for the CNOR and CRNFA certification exams, as a reference in everyday practice, and as the primary text for perioperative nursing courses. Mark Phippen, Brenda Ulmer and Maryann Wells are well known in the Perioperative nursing field for their extensive knowledge of patient care. All three authors are past AORN Board members, with Phippen and Ulmer having served as AORN President.