#118: Taking Care of Surgical Patients

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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One of the most critical times in a surgical patient’s hospital stay is the period right after surgery and the day or two that follow. Taking care of patients at this stage requires diligence, quick thinking, and an eye for spotting and preventing complications. Today we’ll be chatting about taking care of patients in the post-anesthesia recovery period when they are potentially the most unstable, and then transitioning to talk about nursing care once the patient leaves PACU. Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! Straight A Nursing App - Study on-the-go with the Straight A Nursing app! Review more than 5,000 flashcards covering a wide range of subjects including Fundamentals, Pediatrics, Med Surg, Mental Health, Maternal Newborn, and more! Available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. More on PACU Nursing - Want to learn more about PACU nursing? Check out this blog post where I discuss my transition from ICU to recovery room 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	People say us cats have it easy, but it's not all sunshine and catnip. I mean, someone's got to maintain unbroken eye contact while you're in the bath.
0:15.8	So after a long hard day my human better bring me a delicious bowl of whiskers. I'm talking to you Kevin. It's
0:21.1	almost per o'clock. Don't let me down.
0:24.0	Wiskers per moor. Well, hello again everyone, this is Nursemo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:46.0	Podcast. This is episode 118 and today we're going to be talking about
0:52.0	post-op care, that care of the surgical patient.
0:56.5	As always, before we dive into that, I do like to take a moment to give a listener shout out to those of you who take your time to send me your kind comments.
1:07.6	So today's listener shout out goes out to Kaleasy.
1:11.7	And Kaleasy writes, I love listening to this podcast. I feel very overwhelmed
1:17.0	while in medsurg and feel like I have no time to stop studying. Usually recordings from lectures are long and messy, but this
1:26.5	podcast is concise and clear. I'm able to exercise and review a few topics keeping my mind and body healthy.
1:35.0	Love your podcast. Hope you keep at it, Nursemo.
1:38.3	Kalisi, thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to write that review and let me know how much it benefits you.
1:45.4	I absolutely love when students listen to my podcast while they are doing something that is good
1:51.6	for themselves.
1:53.1	So thank you so very much for that.
1:57.9	So today we're talking about post-op care
2:01.8	of patients having surgery in the in-patient setting. Okay? So first we'll talk
2:09.0	about the recovery period and that post-anniseeure recovery period,
2:14.0	and then we'll talk about the period after the patient has fully recovered
2:18.0	from their anesthesia, and they've gone to the nursing unit
2:22.0	for continued care.
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