Outpatient compliance with pre-operative NPO instructions.
In summary, ambulatory surgery requires patients and their families to assume responsibilities previously held by health care providers. These include preserving NPO instructions without the benefit of nurses present to prevent a break in the fast. Nurses responsibilities then, take on a different meaning. An essential nursing objective is to enlighten patients.
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D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D005215:Fasting / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards