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Anxiety management: a distinct nursing role in day surgery (2000)
Journal Article
Mitchell, M. (2000). Anxiety management: a distinct nursing role in day surgery. Ambulatory Surgery, 8(3), 119-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0966-6532%2899%2900061-X

Improved anaesthetic techniques and the increase in minimal access surgery over the past 20 years has had a considerable impact upon the pattern of nursing care required by the surgical patient. In order to adapt to these changes some day surgery nur... Read More about Anxiety management: a distinct nursing role in day surgery.

Nursing intervention for pre-operative anxiety (2000)
Journal Article
Mitchell, M. (2000). Nursing intervention for pre-operative anxiety. Nursing Standard, 14(37), 40-43

Surgical nursing is changing as the type of surgical procedures being performed are becoming more complex and the time for delivering nursing care is reducing. This has resulted in condensing the acute physical care required into a few hours, often t... Read More about Nursing intervention for pre-operative anxiety.