The operating room (OR) is a complex, fast-moving environment, requiring nurses to display their specialized skills across the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative setting. Raise the standard of your OR nurses professional nursing practice and teach clinical care providers how to function at a higher level by developing your nurses'critical thinking abilities. Build confidence and competence through critical thinking Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act is a new easy-to-read resource that explains the principles of critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods. This essential book covers how to lead classroom sessions for new graduate nurses and experienced nurses to develop critical thinking skills, including successful classroom processes and learning strategies. It includes learning strategies, worksheets, and handouts to supplement the classroom learning. Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act provides strategies for managers and nurse educators to use in developing critical thinking skills during orientation and beyond, and includes tools and resources for ongoing development. Benefits for both novice and seasoned professional nurses Learn how to develop a culture of critical thinking, from coaching new grads through bad patient outcomes to encouraging experienced nurses by setting expectations. You also get a CD with all the book's valuable and completely customizable resources such as operating room -specific assessment tools, worksheets, and sample questions. TABLE OF CONTENTS - Introduction: Critical thinking in the perioperative department - Chapter 1: Defining critical thinking - Chapter 2: New graduate nurses and critical thinking - Chapter 3: The critical thinking classroom - Chapter 4: Orientation: Bringing critical thinking to the clinical environment - Chapter 5: Nursing practice that promotes and motivates critical thinking - Chapter 6: Novice to expert: Setting realistic expectations for critical thinking - Chapter 7: Applying critical thinking to nursing documentation - Chapter 8: Relating critical thinking to its higher purpose - Chapter 9: Resources and tools WHO NEEDS THIS BOOK Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act is a must-have for: - Chief nursing officers - Directors of nursing - Nurse managers - Nurse educator EARN CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation. This educational activity for 3 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc.

Critical Thinking in Long-Term Care Nursing: Skills to Assess, Analyze and Act, is an easy-to-read resource that explains the principles of critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods. This essential book covers how to lead classroom sessions for new graduate nurses and experienced nurses to develop critical thinking skills, including successful classroom processes and learning strategies.

This handbook succinctly describes over 500 common errors made by nurses and offers practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these errors. Coverage includes the entire scope of nursing practice—administration, medications, process of care, behavioral and psychiatric, cardiology, critical care, endocrine, gastroenterology and nutrition, hematology-oncology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, pulmonary, preoperative, operative, and postoperative care, emergency nursing, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatric nursing. The book can easily be read immediately before the start of a rotation or used for quick reference. Each error is described in a quick-reading one-page entry that includes a brief clinical scenario and tips on how to avoid or resolve the problem. Illustrations are included where appropriate.

Critical Thinking in the Operating Room: Skills to Assess, Analyze, and Act is a new easy-to-read resource that explains the principles of critical thinking and how to encourage nurses to use critical thinking methods. This essential book covers how to lead classroom sessions for new graduate nurses and experienced nurses to develop critical thinking skills, including successful classroom processes and learning strategies. It includes learning strategies, worksheets, and handouts to supplement the classroom learning.

This manual teaches students fundamental operating room guiding principles and techniques. Focusing on the essential skills needed, along with the rationale, to perform safely and competently in the operating room, this lab manual prepares students for the role of the surgical technologist in conjunction with the movement of the patient through the surgical procedure. Promoting active participation, this teaching and learning resource helps students develop critical thinking, peer teaching, and precise performance skills. Written primarily for new surgical technology students, this lab manual is useful to any student entering the unfamiliar operating room environment.

The OR Survival Guide From aseptic technique to effective communication and everything in between, here’s the on-the-spot guidance you need to succeed in the OR in a pocket-sized, quick reference format. Consult it at the start of your day or between cases to jog your memory and build your confidence. Refresh your knowledge of the essentials of aseptic technique, surgical conscience, anatomy, basic set-up, instruments, and sutures. Be ready for challenging situations with tips for communicating effectively in the OR. Anticipate need and attune your critical thinking to be able to set up your back table and mayo stand quickly and efficiently, count effectively, and communicate well with your team. A Must Have in the OR “This little book is amazing. I’ve only had it a week and I absolutely love it. It has great tips and pointers that I’ve referred to many times throughout my day in the OR as a new nurse. The anatomy, prep and suture pages are my favorite-there is so much information on everything. Anything you write down with [a] pen is erasable as well. I’ve showed my coworkers and many are going to buy it, even the seasoned nurses.”—Kathaleen, Online Reviewer I absolutely love it. It very helpful and i love how... “I’m a CST and this is the pocket book to have on you at all times!!!! I absolutely love it. It very helpful and i love how it breaks it down. So easy to understand.”—Stefany, Online Reviewer Perfect! “Covers the basics. A must for a surgical technologist.”—Online Reviewer

"The concise, easy-to-access resource is aimed at nurses who are new to the operating room and the experienced nurses who guide them... The $30 book contains a wealth of current, evidence-based clinical practice information that perioperative nurses need daily." --Dan O'Connor, Outpatient Surgery Magazine "This pocket-size book offers concise information for rapid reference, step-by-step instructions for perioperative practices, and evidence-based content based on current perioperative standards and recommended practices. ÖNovice nurses, students, and seasoned preceptors will be delighted to learn how easily this go-to guide will provide immediate reference to perioperative practices and information, all while fitting into a pocket for easy retrieval." óKay Ball, PhD, RN, CNOR, FAAN Associate Professor, Nursing, Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio Past President, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses From the Foreword This is a concise, easy-to-access resource for nurses who are new to the operating room (OR) and the experienced nurses who guide them. Condensing volumes of OR content into one pithy, pocket-size book, it contains a wealth of current, evidence-based clinical practice information perioperative nurses need daily. Based on current standards and recommended practices, it is organized to provide speedy access to critical information. Its lucid, step-by-step format helps new nurses to better understand the complex skills and techniques required in the OR. Focusing on safety and specific patient interventions, orientation information including supplies needed and important protocols is covered. It addresses personal and patient preparation, environmental concerns, and documentation requirements, and describes the wide range of specific technical skills needed by both circulating and scrub nurses. Each chapter introduces concepts and sets clear learning objectives. Also included is an overview of the most common surgical procedures. New perioperative nurses in orientation and their preceptors will find this book to be a welcome addition to the learning process. Key Features: Provides must-have OR orientation information for new nurses and their preceptors Contains key information on patient preparation, aseptic technique, surgical procedures, anesthesia considerations, and documentation Based on the most up-to-date evidence in the literature Includes Fast Facts in a Nutshell feature to reinforce important information