Same day surgery will take up cent...

Same day surgery will take up center stage in the nearest millennium. This type of care delivery has enormous implications forward the timing, amount, and nature of preoperative teaching to be accomplished in a reduc time frame. The plan of this study was to describe patients' perceptions of the preoperative teaching they value as mostly important and examine its congruence with the teaching pattern currently in use in a large university hospital. A convenience sample of 100 patients undergoing same day surgery was interviewed during their first postoperative clinic visit. The instrument used was based in succession the Providence Portland Medical Center Research Committee Preoperative Teaching Questionnaire, which was modified and make subordinateed to a test of validity and reliability. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software. oftenness distribution and descriptive statistics were generated for each dimension of teaching and for the total scale, respectively. Spearman's Rho correlation coefficient and analysis of variance were applied to draw relationships between patient's valuation and demographic characteristics. The information derived from this reflection will be used to make a paradigm of preoperative teaching that is empirically based, proactive, and responsive to the exigencys of patients facing same day surgery

Delora Sanares-Ousley, RN MPA, CNA; Mary Jane Bernier, RNC PhD; Patricia Newhouse, RN BSN CNOR, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

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