NURSING INTERVENTION WITH THE PRESURGICAL PATIENT??? THE EFFECTS OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED PREOPERATIVE TEACHING

Abstract

(Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.) is director of nursing research at Luther Hospital, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. (Broadlawns Folk County Hospital School of Nursing, Des Moines, Iowa; M.S.N. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.) is assistant administrator—nursing at Luther Hospital.