Attendance

1. The surgical patient, definition, characteristics, mode of access to the hospital 2. Observation of the surgical patient, signs and symptoms in the surgical field 3. The pre-hospitalization surgical service, characteristics and purposes 4. Clinical documentation in the surgical field 5. Taking charge of the surgical patient, the patient/nurse relationship 6. Pre-operative care: remote, near and immediate, responsibilities and nursing functions 7.Intra-operative care, responsibilities and nursing functions 8. Post-operative care and rehabilitation of the surgical patient, responsibilities and nursing functions 9. Surgical patient discharge, protected discharge, hospital/territories integration, follow-up 10. Application of the nasogastric tube, nursing responsibilities 11. The wound: classification, prevention of infections, proper management of the surgical wound 12. Drains: types of drainage, purpose and proper management, nursing responsibilities 13. Hemorrhages: classification , types of bleeding and nursing responsibilities 14. Trichotomy, characteristics, precaution and nursing responsibilities 15. Special nutrition treatment : Enteral nutrition and Total parenteral nutrition 16. Pneumothorax and thoracic drainage 17. Anesthesiological procedures in the operating room and types of anesthesia 18. The phases of anesthesia in its various types, nursing responsibilities 19. Surgical instruments and surgical needles types and characteristics 20. Pain type, characteristics and nursing responsibilities 21. The management and nursing responsibilities 22. Surgical wound dressings and nursing responsibilities

RECOMMENDED TEXTS 1. Brunner Suddarth – Medical surgical nursing. Volume 1 and 2—Casa Editrice Ambrosiana 2. Korier and Erb—Clinical Nursing-Techniques and Procedures—Edi Sens 3. Galvani-Pierini—The nurse in the operating room – Mc Graw Hill 4. Illustrated methodological guide—Clinical assessment—Casa Editrice Ambrosiana