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“Don't You Miss Patient Care”
Author(s) -
Yanick Marilyn,
Podobinkar Nancy Smith
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(08)70054-1
Subject(s) - instant , action (physics) , nursing , object (grammar) , identity (music) , psychology , operating room nursing , fidelity , medicine , computer science , aesthetics , art , telecommunications , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
Being wheeled into the operating room may be the most frightening experience in a person's life. Recognizing this, the nurse in the operating room must compress effective reassurance into the patient's few moments of awareness. Moreover, she must see and hear things the way he does, and when he is helpless, look after his needs for safety, fluid and nutrition, and oxygen. If he is awake during the surgery, she can help him participate in it and thus retail his identity as a person rather than as an object. Such high‐fidelity nursing awareness and action is here termed “instant” care.