Pre and Postoperative Nursing Care

Learning objectives:
• List steps in pre operative preparation.
• Identify the high-risk surgical patients.
• Describe the major assessment skills, needed in the pre operative, intra operative, and postoperative stages.
• Explain the purpose of informed consent.
• Perform general postoperative measures such as: obtaining vital sings, assessing level of consciousness, assessing surgical pain.
• Report and document post operative complication.
• Assess for patient air way.

Key terminology
anaesthesia hypothermia postoperatve
atlectasis         hypoxia         preoperative
elective         intraoperative   suture
embolus         perioperative
evisceration pneumonia