Surgical team
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Surgical team
- Perioperative nurse
- Is a registered nurse (RN)
- Prepares room with team
- Serves as patient advocate throughout surgical experience
- Maintains patient safety, privacy, dignity, confidentiality
- Communicates with the patient
- Provides physical care
- Scrub nurse
- Follows designated surgical hand asepsis procedure
- Gowned and gloved in sterile attire
- Remains in sterile field
- Circulating nurse
- Not scrubbed, gowned, or gloved
- Remains in unsterile field
- Documents
- LPN or surgical technician
- Performs scrubbed or circulating function
- Passes instruments and implements other technical functions during procedure
- Supervised by RN
- Surgeon
- Physician who performs the procedure
- Is responsible for
- Preoperative medical history
- Physical assessment
- Patient safety
- Postoperative management
- Surgeon’s assistant can be a physician, RN, or PA who functions in assisting role
- Holds retractors
- Assists with homeostasis and suturing
- May perform portions of procedure under direct supervision
- Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA)
- Must have formal education
- Works collaboratively with the surgeon, patient, and surgical team
- Handles tissue
- Uses instruments
- Provides exposure to surgical site
- Assists with homeostasis
- Performs suturing
- Anesthesia care provider (ACP)
- Administers anesthesia
- Anesthesiologist, nurse anesthetist, or anesthesiologist assistant (AA)
- Maintenance of physiologic homeostasis throughout intraoperative period
- Provide care during recovery
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