Unit Code: PON851

Unit Name: Intraoperative Nursing

Description: This unit focuses on exploring the theoretical components of intraoperative nursing. The content of this course will include basic concepts of perioperative nursing, principles of surgical asepsis, perioperative nursing roles, infection control, and operating suite planning. The ethical and legal issues related to perioperative nursing, professional issues. Also, the anatomy, pathophysiology and surgical techniques for general, gynaecological and obstetrics, urology, plastics and reconstructive surgery, paediatric, endocrine surgery, vascular surgery and cardiac surgery, ENT surgery and Neurosurgery, Orthopaedic surgery, general trauma and orthopaedic trauma are explored. Successful completion of this unit enables the student to assess and manage the pre-, intra- and post-operative patient.

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Prerequisite: N/A

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 30

Offered In: Semester 1,2