Perioperative Services: Administration, Resource Management, and Patient Care

PERIOPERATIVE SERVICES: ADMINISTRATION, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, AND PATIENT CARE

By Cathy Frye, Cynthia Spry

2000, 628 pp

$249, looseleaf

This book is intended for professionals who manage services in today's fast-paced, intense, and financially lucrative perioperative departments. Many changes have occurred in these departments during the past decade because of managed care, hospital mergers, and management reengineering, and the author recognizes the need for a source of information to which managers can turn when they need answers quickly. This book attempts to meet this need by providing information clearly and concisely, which should be helpful to managers in all areas of perioperative service. In addition to the critical information supplied in the manual, the author has included various forms and checklists that can be used with minimal modification.

Experienced perioperative nurses wrote the majority of the book. This is beneficial, as practical advice and knowledge is imparted by those...