title: Applying the nursing process to patient care in the operating room.
abstract: Using the nursing process in operating room nursing helps to assure personalized, continuous, and integrated care for the surgical patient. The steps in the nursing process clearly demonstrate the role and functions of the O.R. nurse as a professional member of the surgical team and as a component of the health care system. By this means the patient is assured of protection and quality care.
mesh_terms: D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009871:Operating Room Nursing; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011300:Preoperative Care