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The perioperative staff nurse is a professional care giver who assures responsibility and accountability for nursing actions for neonates to geriatric patients which include, but are not limited to : identifying patterns of human responses to actual or potential health problems amenable to a nursing regimen; executing a nursing regimen through the selection, performance, management and evaluation of nursing action; assessing health status for the purpose of providing nursing care, providing health counseling and teaching; administering medications, treatments and executing regimens prescribed by licensed physicians, dentists and podiatrists; teaching, administering, supervising, delegating and evaluating nursing practice.
The registered nurse specializing in peri-operative nursing practice performs nursing activities in the preoperative, intra-operative, and post-operative phases of the surgical experience for neonates to geriatric patients. Perioperative nursing practice is flexible and diverse and includes a variety of roles that include, but is not limited to, circulating nurse, scrub nurse, surgical assistant. While the peri-operative nurse works in collaboration with other health professionals, the nurse has the primary responsibility and accountability for nursing care of patients having surgical interventions.
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