Online Companion: Fundamentals of Nursing Standards and Practice 2E

Chapter Objectives

After reading Chapter 30, the student should be ready to
• Explain the roles and responsibilities of the surgeon, the anesthetist, and the nurse in providing perioperative care to clients.
• Describe what the client understands when giving informed consent for surgery.
• Identify the major goal of nursing care in each of the three perioperative phases.
• Compare and contrast the three different types of anesthesia used during surgery.
• Describe the specific activities of the nurse in the preoperative phase.
• Describe the physiologic functions that are affected by anesthesia and surgery and the related assessments that are done in the postoperative phase.