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dc.contributor.authorLee, David Shui-Kong
dc.date.accessioned2006-07-27
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-28T01:24:41Z
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-02T01:08:17Z
dc.date.available2015-04-28T01:24:41Z
dc.date.available2017-03-02T01:08:17Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.issn1037-6178
dc.identifier.doi10.5172/conu.13.2-3.271
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/67379
dc.description.abstractMany nurses have acknowledged that adequate pre-operative teaching can alleviate patients’ anxiety, increase patient participation in their own care, and minimize post-operative complications. However, the organization and degree to which pre-operative patient teaching featured in nurses’ practice varies in different acute care settings. A case study design was used to explore the practice of pre-operative teaching in a surgical ward of an acute general hospital in Hong Kong. Seventeen registered nurses working on the ward were interviewed and observed in order to explore how they conduct a pre-operative teaching program and the difficulties encountered by them in carrying out pre-operative teaching on this acute care setting. The findings of this study indicate that pre-operative teaching workshops are organized and conducted by nurses from the operating theatre, in the day surgery center. Ward nurses were not actively involved in this pre-operative teaching. The results of this study present some similarities to a study with the similar design in Australia. There are also issues unique to the Hong Kong context. This case study was to review Hong Kong nurses’ current practices of pre-operative teaching and to understand the cultural, conceptual and management factors influencing the practice in pre-operative teaching.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.publishereContent Pty Ltd
dc.publisher.placeSydney
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom271
dc.relation.ispartofpageto280
dc.relation.ispartofjournalContemporary Nurse
dc.relation.ispartofvolume13
dc.subject.fieldofresearchNursing
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1110
dc.titlePre-operative patient teaching in an acute care ward in Hong Kong: A case study
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codec1x
gro.facultyGriffith Health Faculty
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorLee, David S.


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