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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Policies that drive the nursing practice of postoperative observations |
Author: | Zeitz, K. McCutcheon, H. |
Citation: | International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2002; 39(8):831-839 |
Publisher: | Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2002 |
ISSN: | 0020-7489 1873-491X |
Abstract: | Postoperative nursing care traditionally has involved the utilisation of regulated, routine patient observation to monitor patient progress. This study was designed to review the policy/procedure documentation that drives this practice and to determine who contributes to policy development. In all, 75 surgical hospitals were surveyed, producing 47 procedures for content analysis. Findings suggest that there is a great diversity in procedures between organisations. The most common pattern of postoperative vital sign collection is hourly for 4 h and then 4 hourly in 27% of the regimes. On average a patient receives 10 sets of observation in the first 24 h, with neurovascular, wound and drain checks the most frequent observations collected in addition to vital signs. |
Keywords: | Humans Wound Infection Monitoring, Physiologic Clinical Protocols Postoperative Care Decision Making Organizational Policy Documentation Nursing Assessment Practice Guidelines as Topic |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0020-7489(02)00024-X |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0020-7489(02)00024-x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 2 Nursing publications |
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