Cardiac Surgery for Nurses: Orientation, Policy, and Procedures: Orientation, Policy, and Procedures

by Debi Stephens-Lesser

Overview

This policy and procedure book is a valuable resource for new or existing cardiac surgery programs. It provides support for each procedure in the cardiac surgery environment to include standards of practice, risk management, staffing competencies, and quality indicators to optimize care of the cardiovascular surgery patient. The policy manual is based upon AORN standards and meets JCAHO standards for the operating room environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763744892
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	10/20/2006
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	406
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Fresno Heart Hospital

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Josie Martin Bowman, RN, MSN, PhD (East Carolina University )
Description: This book focuses on policies and standards used in a cardiac surgery program, using a framework that includes scheduling, staffing, risk management, education, case management, and special cardiac surgical procedures.
Purpose: According to the authors, clinical standards are used to provide guidelines for accepted practice, provide clinical indicators of patient progress, and evaluate patient outcomes. This book is essential to those involved in a cardiac surgery program and it meets its objectives. It contains standards of care for various aspects of cardiac care based on AORN and JCAHO standards for the operating room environment.
Audience: The author indicates that the book is written for "newly qualified nurses or nurses entering the specialty of cardiac surgery." The author is a nurse with advanced certification.
Features: There are standards related to the cardiac surgical team composition, staffing, education, scheduling, and care from preoperative to postoperative. The most important aspect of the book is that the standards are based on JCAHO and AORN standards. It would have been useful to include some information about why the book was developed and if it is currently used at the hospital where the author is the director. Information about the book's purpose and audience, as well as the credentials of the author, should be in a prominent place, instead of on the back cover of the book.
Assessment: This book would be useful to those involved in starting a cardiac surgery program. I would recommend it as a reference, since institutions may develop their own standards or have specific policies based on protocols unique to their organization.

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