PREOPERATIVE PATIENT

Educating and Advocate Preoperative Patient

Educating and Advocate Preoperative Patient

Introduction

Many people because of their illness or circumstances that may arise from emergency situations are in the need to go to the emergency room of a hospital. Since this is an emergency, information will be determined by the patient's health status, clinical status and required medical intervention, which must provide the doctor clarifying questions a person may have and explaining the diagnosis and treatment to clarify its alternatives. The surgery promotes the emergence of anxiety, anguish and helplessness, both the patient and the family that if go as an escort. These feelings will increase if there is good information from the health care team concerning their health, disease and treatment possible to follow. When the surgery is urgent, the emotional impact for the people involved increases. This can be caused by several factors, but an insufficient explanation of the need for surgery, the information meets the needs of the patient or an inadequate understanding by the same, lead to increased stress preoperative influence negatively the process of surgery.

Proper preoperative information reduces patient anxiety, facilitating recovery and reducing hospital stay. Some studies show that patients who received very detailed preoperative information experienced higher levels of anxiety and had a surgery recovery slow and complicated. However, other authors have noted that such detailed information does not increase patient anxiety. It is here where they can play an important role of health professionals, constituted as a team and directed to report clearly and appropriately to each of the patients as individuals who suffer physically and psychologically. The patient is exposed to preoperative information, be alerted to the unpleasant consequences of surgery.

Discussion

Nurses are often involved in this situation. Her concern has encouraged us to better conduct a study with these patients and her aim is to analyze the perception of the information she has on her process. Toyed with the hypothesis that the information provided may have correctable shortcomings. In research conducted by Perez-Moreno et al, found a low degree of knowledge of patients on medical intervention performed and the limited information provided. A nurse must find a compromise between the position of hiding the true extent of patient treatment and the risks thereof, and the thesis that the patient should be fully informed of all medical eventualities, which would make it almost impossible to practice Medical.

Age, education, gender, length of hospital stay and the fact that a surgical patient, are factors that influence the amount and type of information requested by patients.

As a nurse, I understand that each patient has needs for knowledge and that more information could help to increase his anxiety, but that knowledge should make me cautious about reporting.

Given that the application of informed consent is an obligation of health professionals, I must know the extent of information that patients receive in order to take appropriate action. Good communication is associated with low incidence of malpractice litigation. Good information not only increases patient satisfaction, but also reduces ...