title: Nursing education accepts new challenges.
abstract: This paper describes an innovative experience in which nursing students made home visits to postoperative patients. It was planned in cooperation with surgeons and nurses in the outpatient surgery department. Objectives for this experience were defined and students evaluated the effectiveness of their preoperative teaching and monitored the patients for potential complications.
authors.affiliation: New Mexico State University at Carlsbad, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gould
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009737:Nursing Records; D011182:Postoperative Care; D015397:Program Evaluation