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PubMed1978

Nursing care of the infant in surgery.

The operating room nurse, as an important team member, actively participates in the specialized care of the infant undergoing surgical intervention. Using the steps of the nursing process, he or she initiates the assessment preoperatively, collecting data about the health status of the patient. Based on these data, the nurse plans and prepares for the intraoperative phase and implements nursing actions while continuously and systematically reassessing the patient's condition and environment. In general, the most significant areas to consider in assessment, planning, and implementing care for infants undergoing surgical procedures are temperature regulation, fluid balance, readiness of the OR to receive the patient, prevention of infection, safe and reliable monitoring devices, careful tissue handling, and organization of priorities and interventions, especially to make efficient use of time.

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PubMed1975

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PubMed1975

The impact of surgery on body image.

Surgery has an impact on the patient's view of himself and his body. It is within the professional nurse's realm to skillfully assess, make a nursing diagnosis, plan, and follow through on findings of body image assessment. Operating room nurses can expand their roles by contributing to this dimension of care. Because of their close contact with the patient, they are in an ideal situation to attend to this patient need. O.R. nurses need not be "little psychiatrists" in order to do this--only caring, intelligent, resourceful persons who use the nursing process and truly place the patient's welfare above all else.

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