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Perioperative Nursing Assignment

   

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Running head: PERIOPERATIVE NURSINGPERIOPERATIVE NURSING AND BIOLOGICAL HAZARDSName of the studentName of the UniversityAuthor note
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PERIOPERATIVE NURSING1Operation or surgery is the ultimate treatment provided by physicians to treat a patientand improve his or her health. However, numerous of physical, biological and chemical hazardsthat are lurking in the operation theatre make their profession risky (Bainbridge et al. 2012). Therole of perioperative nurses are more risky as they help in the assessment, planning andimplementation of the nursing care, the patient receives before, in between and after the surgery.Therefore, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Board and the Australian College of OperatingRoom Nurses (ACORN) helps the perioperative nurses by guiding them and governing them inpractice so that they are able to provide the patient with best care in such perioperativeenvironment (Gialdini et al. 2014). The biological hazards such as blood, body fluids and tissuespecimen of the infected patient can also lead to infectious diseases such as HIV, hepatitis B andseveral other blood-borne diseases. Therefore ACORN standards makes sure that theperioperative nurses are provided with equal amount of care while serving for the patient inhazardous (biological) operation theatres (Bainbridge et al. 2012). This assignment will bediscussing about the standards set by ACORN for the surgical concerns and the implication ofthese standards in attaining safety for perioperative nurses in surgical environment will becritically discussed. Further for the evaluation, the ACORN standards, the local and nationalhealth policy and literature review conducted with research articles of last five years.Furthermore, these implications will be discussed in the context of my practice settings and thechanges should be made so that the practice is able to achieve success for both patient andperioperative nurses. According to Ghosh (2013), in the report of World Health Report Working Together forHealth on Human Resources determines that the crisis level of health care workers in more than57 countries is because of the unsafe work environment and protect for the staff. The researchers
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PERIOPERATIVE NURSING2also agree to the fact that perioperative nurses are at higher risk in the operation theatre than anyother healthcare personnel as the chances of their exposure to biological hazards is always higher(Marsh 2012). Still there are several lacks in the guidelines related to it in maximum countries.As the assignment is focused to biological hazards, the risk of it can cause several blood borneinfections, hepatitis B and C and the severity of it can lead to HIV infection as well. Thesehazards can be of different types and according to Ghosh (2013), there are more than 5000manual handling injuries are reported every year. However, the devastating risk of biologicalhazards affects the perioperative nurses most. Usage of sharp and pointed objects, working withinfected patients and staying in contact with the infected person within the operative roomhaving no such equipment to filter the air within, can cause severe infection to the perioperativenurses. Further, due to exposure to percutaneous injuries, blood-borne pathogens, blood splashes,contact or exposure to microorganisms and exposure to protein allergens present in the surgicalgloves can also causes biological injuries to the perioperative nurse (Mellor and Hutchinson2013). According to Ghosh (2013), more than 6 million perioperative healthcare professionalsare at the risk of different blood-borne diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, and other potentiallyinfected bacteria due to the exposure to blood, saliva, semen, vaginal fluid, peritoneal andcerebrospinal fluid and so on. The ACORN standards determined few rules and regulations so that perioperative nursesworking in such risky environment can be secured from being exposed to such biologicalhazards. Therefore, the ACORN 2016-2017 standard was modified from its previous versionsand published to include a suggestion to manage the biological hazard within the operativeenvironment (ACORN 2017). This standard has five statement depending on which the entirestandard is destined to help the perioperative nurses. These are standard for staff and patient
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