Day Surgery: Contemporary Approaches to Nursing Care

The evolution of day surgery has heralded a new era of medical, anaesthetic and nursing knowledge, skills and practice. Day Surgery: Contemporary Approaches to Nursing Care explores the familiar concepts within nursing, such as evidence-based practice, patient-centred communication, management, practice development and models of care, and uses these theoretical constructs to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary services and nursing approaches within day surgery. This book is written with the intention of providing nurses working in day surgery with a comprehensive applied text that can be used as a reference when caring for patients.

Day Surgery: Contemporary Approaches to Nursing Care:

• Provides a comprehensive overview of nursing approaches in day surgery
• Utilises models of care
• Includes evidence based practice
• Provides practical advice on management of day surgery services including setting up and implementing nurse led services in the area.