PERIOPERATIVE SERVICES: ADMINISTRAT...

PERIOPERATIVE SERVICES: ADMINISTRATION, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, AND PATIENT CARE

by dint of Cathy Frye, Cynthia Spry 2000 628 pp $249 looseleaf

This work is intended for professionals who manage services in today's fast-paced, intense, and financially lucrative perioperative departments. Many changes have occurr in these departments during the past decade because of managed care, hospital merger and management reengineering, and the author recognizes the ne for a source of information to which managers can revolve when they need answers quickly. This work attempts to meet this ne according to providing information clearly and concisely, which should be helpful to managers in all areas of perioperative service. In addition to the critical information supplied in the manual, the author has included various forms and checklists that can be used with minimal modification.

Experienced perioperative nourish at the breasts wrote the majority of the volume This is beneficial, as practical advice and knowledge is imparted at those who know the internal workings of perioperative services. The topic of part individual is administration, and these chapters contain practical, essential information that will provide managers with a wealth of knowledge in vital areas. The chapter upon preparation for a Joint Commission upon Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations review is especially helpful. Although a necessary evil, the Joint Commission elicits feelings of apprehension forward the part of most hospital administrators and managers. Many of us want to know what is important to the Joint Commission and what we should do to best prepare for review. This chapter provides a insights that will help. The checklists and sample forms are exceedingly straightforward and practical. Any manager who intrust with an agencys the information contained in this chapter should have reduc anxiety about an impending Joint Commission review.

Part two--Resource Management--provides information necessary to make sure that all available resources work together to achieve optimum patient care. As most numerous perioperative service departments have operating packets in the multimillion dollar range, it is imperative that managers implement rules that will maximize their fiscal estimates to remain fiscally sound in this era Of capitation. Although single cannot become budget-wise simply according to reading a chapter or brace the information imparted certainly helps in achieving this goal.

Patient education is an essential element of total patient care. Patients have more positive consequences when they are educated about their specific disease and the treatment modalities available to them, as well as wellness and prevention of disease as a whole. Education is, in fact, a patient right, and it is our responsibility as health care professionals to make sure that patients receive the education they merit Part three addresses this issue and provides essential information concerning the theory and practice of educating surgical patients and their significant others. Included case studies and teaching tool samples provide a undecayed foundation on which to build a personalized educational component part for patients.

In summary, this work is a practical and concise concern manual that would be beneficial in any manager's library. It addresses issues that are belonging to all to all perioperative managers, regardless of the size of their yearly caseload. The looseleaf binder format makes it easy to retrieve sample charts and formats and gives ease in adding supplemental information. The ability to update is invaluable in this constant state of change. The language used from beginning to end the manual is understood easily and has been written according to those who know the method best--perioperative nurses. I highly commend this manual and welcome it into my library.

This volume is available from Aspen Publishers, Inc, 200 Orchard Ridge Dr Suite 200 Gaithersburg, MD 20878; http://www.aspenpub.com.

TAMMI HUMPHREY RN BSN CNOR PERIOPERATIVE NURSING INSTRUCTOR LEESBURG REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER LEESBURG FLA

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