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Reviewers Judith Berry, RN, BN, MNsg, Dr of Nursing, ACORN, AFPP, AORN The Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health, Law and Ethics, Sterilizing, Research and AdvisoryCouncil of Australia Nursing…

Contributors Leigh Anderson, RN, MN (Hons), NZNO Perioperative Nurse Educator Adult & Emergency Operating Rooms, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand Lyell Brougham, RN, MNSc, BNurs(Clinical), Dipl App Sc, ICCert,…

Editors Dr Lois Hamlin Dr Lois Hamlin is a senior lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), where she is the Director of Postgraduate Programs and Coordinator of Perioperative…

Preface Perioperative nursing is one of the oldest nursing specialties. It has featured in the nursing curriculum within Australia and New Zealand for more than 100 years, and longer elsewhere….

Copyright Mosby is an imprint of Elsevier Elsevier Australia, ACN 001 002 357 (a division of Reed International Books Australia Pty Ltd) Tower 1, 475 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood, NSW 2067…

Lois Hamlin, Editor-in-Chief Marilyn Richardson-Tench Menna Davies

Foreword For decades, perioperative nurses in Australia have had to rely on international textbooks to provide reference and theoretical support for our dynamic, principle-based specialty. While the principles behind perioperative…