Education and Leadership in Perioperative Nursing
nurse is therefore tasked with providing care during all these three phases. Initially, perioperative nursing was called “operating room nursing”, which actually pointed to the care that was given to the patient during the intraoperative period. The intraoperative period is normally centred within the operating room. With time, the role of the nurse expanded into the pre- and postoperative periods, and thus the term perioperative was adopted as a more appropriate one (Spry, 2016; Turunen et al., 2017). We can therefore now rightly define the perioperative nurse as one who specializes in the care of surgical patients before, during and after the surgery.… Continue Reading...
