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The Surgical Patient Chapter 3 - Nicola

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Surgical Technologist primary role is to:

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Assist the surgeon during the surgical procedure Establishment and protection of a sterile field
Care and handling of surgical instrumentation
Assistance with technical tasks throughout the surgical procedure

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What are the components that make up an individual

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Physical, psychological, social, and spiritual

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Any need or activity related to genetics, physiology, or anatomy

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Physical need

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Any need, or activity, related to the identification and understanding of oneself

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Physiological need

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Any need, or activity, related to one's identification and understanding of one's place in an organized universe

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Spiritual need

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Any need, or activity, related to identification in one's identification or interaction with another individual or group

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Social need

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A means of prioritizing needs effective for basic understanding of individuals and for quick recognition of patient concerns

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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Views patient as a biopsychosocial individual
Constantly interacting with the environment with the ability to adapt by using coping skills

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Roy Adaptation Model (Sister Callista Roy)

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Patient does not want to accept the truth

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Denial

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Patient attempt to rationalize his/her illness - diabetes runs on my side of the family

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Rationalization

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Patient exhibits behaviors such as assuming a fetal position, excessive crying, pouting, and dependency on others.

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Regression

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Patient represses thoughts and feelings about his/her illness and does not want to hold any discussion cornering what is happening

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Repression

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It cant be happening to me - 1st temporary defense

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Denial

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Resentment, envy Why Me? - when the 1st stage cannot continue

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Anger

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Just let me live to see my son graduate - 3rd stage

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Bargaining

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Please don't take me away from my family - 4th stage when the patient can no longer deny the illness

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Depression

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I know I will be in a better place - 5th state when the patient has had enough time to work through the first 4 stages

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Acceptance

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Religion - turn body to east to face Mecca

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Muslin tradition

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Religion - Dying patient cannot be left alone, and cannot be touched until been offered last rites

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Jewish

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Religion - believe in reincarnation and that the last thoughts of a person before death determine the rebirth condition

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Buddhists

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Religion - feel cremation is the best way for the soul to begin its journey

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Hindus

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A patient suffering from a disease that is progressive and incurable. Palliative treatment is often prescribed.

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Terminal

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Long lasting condition, more than 4-6 weeks. Asthma, high blood pressure etc

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Prolonged (chronic)

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Greek: “good death”
American: “easy death” or “painless inducement of quick death”

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Euthanasia

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When the physician does nothing to preserve life

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Passive euthanasia

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Be it voluntary or involuntary both involve the administration of a drug to speed up the dying process

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Active euthanasia

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Allows patients the right to refuse treatment

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AHA Patient Care Partnership

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Requires medical facilities to inform patients of their right to choose the type and extent of medical care
Requires patients be provided with information concerning living wills and powers of attorney

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Patient Self-Determination Act

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Do not intubate, do not resuscitate
Hospital's can rescind during surgery therefore patients need to be specific if this is to carry over into surgery also

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Part of a living will

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When did organ transplantation begin

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Early 1950's

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Physiological, safety, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization

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Prioritizing Needs: Maslow’s Hierarch

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Developmental stages for human progression expressed in terms of a hierarchy

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Maslow’s Hierarchy: Prioritizing Needs

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The most basic needs are biological needs, such as the need for water, oxygen, food, and temperature regulation.

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Survival or physiological

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This level of need refers to a positive evaluation of oneself and others, a need to be respected and to respect others.

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Prestige & Esteem needs

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These needs refer to the perception on the part of the individual that his or her environment is safe.

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Safety needs

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These are basic social needs—to be known and cared for as an individual and to care for another.

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Love and belonging

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A “nonspecific response of the body to a demand”

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Stress

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Fulfil what one believes is one's purpose

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Self-actualization
1st - top

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The most commonly referred to type of stress—the type that has negative implications

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Distress

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What means “well” or “good,” is the term for the positive, desirable form of stress.

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Eustress

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Which patients feel much more threatened...

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Pediatric

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Who introduced the Five Stages of Grief

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Kübler-Ross

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The irreversible loss of all functions of the entire brain

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Whole-brain death

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This is the irreversible loss of higher-brain function. The lower brain stem continues to provide respiration, blood pressure, and a heartbeat without the assistance of a respirator.

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Higher-brain death

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The irreversible loss of cardiac and respiratory function. This is the permanent absence of heartbeat and respiration

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Cardiac death

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Legal documents used to speak for patients in the event that they cannot make decisions for themselves

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Advanced Directive

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A patient suffering from a disease that is progressive and incurable

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Terminal

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These patients are much more conscious about their bodies and privacy

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Adolescents

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Which religion performs Anointing of the Sick on a seriously ill person

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Roman Catholic

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No blood transfusion, and no abortions.
Birth controlled allowed

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Jehovah’s Witness

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This is the need to fulfill what one believes is one’s purpose.

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Self-actualization

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Who views the patient as a biopsychosocial individual that is constantly interacting with the environment with the ability to adapt by using coping skills in dealing with internal and external stressors

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Sister Callista-Roy