title: Counting as caring.
abstract: Perioperative nurses have developed specific expert nursing care practices. "Counting as caring" is certainly an approach in keeping with the perioperative nurse's guiding principle of beneficence (to do no harm). This article takes a retrospective look, from the first half of the last century through into the late 1960s, at the practice of counting and the influences that have changed it.
authors.affiliation: Perioperative Services, Kingston General Hospital, Ontario.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Downey
mesh_terms: D026686:Beneficence; D002170:Canada; D002562:Ceremonial Behavior; D004645:Empathy; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics / Q000266:history; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000266:history*; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000266:history*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000266:history*; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000266:history*; D015503:Surgical Sponges / Q000266:history*