Perioperative Services: Administration, Resource Management, and Patient Care provides detailed information for improving your operating room, making it more economical, efficient, and compliant. You'll get fast access to valuable tools and quality support materials, such as policies and procedures, legal forms, guidelines, job descriptions, patient documentation, and more to help you formulate the best approaches to the fast-changing health care marketplace. With Perioperative Services, you'll have: Standards and guidelines for providing efficient and cost-effective care Complete job descriptions for a wide selection of perioperative care professions Hundreds of ready-to-use forms, checklists, and tools that help streamline procedures Expert analysis on hot topics, such as Infection Control, Disaster Planning, Research Utilization, New Technology Purchasing, and more Perioperative Services provides expert policies, procedures, forms, guidelines, and more, help you: Survive the accreditation process Protect your facility from lawsuits and liability Prepare for renovation Tackle budgeting responsibilities Deal with staffing and personnel issues Ensure quality patient care and management Keep pace with advances in infection control And much more! Perioperative Services has been updated to include: Retrospective, four past and current editors of this publication reflect on the changes, challenges, and opportunities in the field of perioperative services since 2000 and postulate on what the future may hold. Staffing, incorporates recent research and changes in staffing practices in Perioperative Services Departments and includes an appendix that discusses the benefits of implementing a S