NURS3072 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Coronary Circulation, General Anaesthesia, Nursing Assessment
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Review: review the following suffixes, ectomy: excision/ removal, lysis: decomposition, dissolution, destruction, loosening, breaking down, separation, or disintegration, orrhaphy, oscopy: looking into, ostomy: creation of opening into, otomy: cutting into/ incision, plasty: repair/ reconstruction. 2019, chapter 20: preoperative care pp 384 400, effects of anaesthesia pp 409-414, Chapter 22: postoperative care pp 418-436; perry et al. Infection prevention and wound care: interpret the significance of the client"s health status and preoperative assessment data related to the client"s perioperative risk, subjective data, psychosocial assessment, meaning of surgery should be explored. Stress can negatively impact surgical outcomes (causing longer more painful recovery). Nurse is essential to reduce anxiety by answering questions and discussing anything the patient wants to know: anxiety: may be anxious since there is a lack of knowledge. Fear of death must be communicated to the physician in order to discuss the fear and reduce it. Preop team must be supportive of patient and their goals.
