Day Surgery Contemporary Approaches to

The evolution of day surgery has heralded a new era of medical, anaesthetic and nursing knowledge, skills and practice. Day Surgery: Contemporary Approaches to Nursing Care explores the familiar concepts within nursing, such as evidence-based practice, patient-centred communication, management, practice development and models of care, and uses these theoretical constructs to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary services and nursing approaches within day surgery. This book is written with the intention of providing nurses working in day surgery with a comprehensive applied text that can be used as a reference when caring for patients.Day Surgery: Contemporary Approaches to Nursing Care: Provides a comprehensive overview of nursing approaches in day surgery Utilises models of care Includes evidence based practice Provides practical advice on management of day surgery services including setting up and implementing nurse led services in the area.

Dr. Fiona Timmins and Ms. Catherine McCabe are both lecturers within the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Contributors	p. ix
Introduction to Day Surgery	p. 1
Historical background	p. 1
Overview of services	p. 6
Common presenting conditions	p. 9
Recent innovations in day surgery	p. 13
Conclusion	p. 14
References	p. 15
Models of Care	p. 19
Introduction	p. 19
Outline of conceptual models of nursing care	p. 20
The Roper, Logan and Tierney Model	p. 23
Orem's self-care deficit theory of nursing	p. 25
Peplau's conceptual frame of reference for psychodynamic Nursing	p. 27
Evaluation of the contribution of conceptual models of nursing to day surgery practice	p. 28
Background and development of care pathways	p. 31
What is a care pathway?	p. 31
Developing care pathways	p. 33
Examples of care pathways in current use	p. 36
Conclusion	p. 43
References	p. 44
Nurse-led Pre-admission Clinics	p. 47
Introduction	p. 47
The emergence of nurse-led interventions	p. 47
Nurse-led services	p. 51
The pre-assessment process	p. 54
Educational intervention	p. 59
Setting up a nurse-led pre-admission clinic	p. 62
Evaluating services	p. 68
Conclusion	p. 71
References	p. 71
Practice Development	p. 77
Introduction	p. 77
Background	p. 77
What do we mean by practice development?	p. 79
Applying practice development initiatives in day surgery units	p. 81
Evaluation methodologies	p. 92
Patient satisfaction	p. 94
Conclusion	p. 95
References	p. 95
Day Surgery Management	p. 99
Introduction	p. 99
Management structure	p. 99
Systems thinking	p. 100
Management and leadership	p. 101
Teamwork	p. 102
Planning day surgery services	p. 103
Planning day surgery facilities	p. 106
Human resource management	p. 109
Managing the provision of services	p. 112
Outcomes management	p. 113
Financial management	p. 118
Conclusion	p. 119
References	p. 120
Communication Issues in Day Surgery	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
Communication	p. 123
Importance of communication in day surgery	p. 126
Collaborative communication	p. 130
Conclusion	p. 134
References	p. 135
Providing Information and Support	p. 137
Introduction	p. 137
Day surgery and patient education	p. 138
Patient education and management of anxiety	p. 145
Patient education process	p. 148
Principles of patient education	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 166
References	p. 166
Index	p. 171
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