Surgical Patients: A Vulnerable Population

Zinn, Jennifer L.

doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2013.09.004

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“…Before the OR suites are ready to receive their same‐day and morning‐admit patients, as well as the inpatients who are scheduled early, the preoperative nurse will perform the first task as designated by the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP), 7,10,11 which is clipping hair around the surgical site as ordered by the surgeon. Razors were relegated to the wayside long ago, after it became apparent that they created a portal of entry for microorganisms when skin was accidentally nicked.…”

Section: Prevention Of Infection In the Perioperative Continuummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Continuing with other requirements in SCIP 7,10,11 protocol as they relate to prevention and control of infection, a procedure‐based antibiotic, if required, will be delivered to the patient intravenously within one hour of incision (two hours before for vancomycin and levofloxacin) and discontinued within 24 hours of the anesthesia end time (48 hours for cardiovascular surgery), unless the physician provides a rationale for continuing with the antibiotic. In many facilities, the anesthesiologist administers the antibiotic after the patient is on the OR bed to comply with protocol to administer it within one hour before incision.…”

Section: Prevention Of Infection In the Perioperative Continuummentioning

confidence: 99%

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Examining the Significance of Infection Prevention Practices

Dunn¹

2017

AORN Journal

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Section: Prevention Of Infection In the Perioperative Continuummentioning

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Section: Prevention Of Infection In the Perioperative Continuummentioning

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Examining the Significance of Infection Prevention Practices

Dunn¹

2017

AORN Journal

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Avoiding surgical site infections in neurosurgical procedures

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Nursing is never neutral: Political determinants of health and systemic marginalization

Dickman

Chicas

2021

Nursing Inquiry

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The nursing community in the United States polarized in September 2020 between Dawn Wooten's whistleblowing about forced hysterectomies at an immigration center in Georgia and the American Nurses Association's refusal to endorse a presidential candidate despite the Trump administration's mounting failures to address the public health crisis posed by the COVID‐19 pandemic. This reveals a need for more attention to political aspects of health outcome inequities. As advocates for health equity, nurses can join in recent scholarship and activism concerning the political determinants of health. In this paper, we examine recent work on the political determinants of health with an aim to add two things. First, we seek to build further on the notion of “political” determinants of health by distinguishing policy and governance structures from dynamics of politicization through appeal to critical disabilities studies. Second, we seek to apply this further nuanced approach to challenge rhetorical uses of “vulnerable populations,” where this phrase serves to misrecognize systemic institutionalized forces that actively exploit and marginalize people and groups. By refocusing attention to political systems organized around and perpetuating inequitable health outcomes, nurses and other health care professionals—as well as those whom they serve—can concentrate their effort and power to act on political determinants of health in bringing about more equitable health outcomes.

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Surgical Patients: A Vulnerable Population

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Examining the Significance of Infection Prevention Practices

Examining the Significance of Infection Prevention Practices

Avoiding surgical site infections in neurosurgical procedures

Nursing is never neutral: Political determinants of health and systemic marginalization

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