title: The perioperative dialogue: holistic nursing in practice.
abstract: This article is a synthesis of 2 qualitative studies focusing on patients', anesthetists', and operating-room nurses' experiences of the perioperative dialogue and employing grounded theory as the method of analysis. The aim of the synthesis was to achieve a new holistic understanding of health in the perioperative dialogue. The synthesis highlights the importance of being in communion in a continuous whole due to continuity of care for the creation of health in both patients and nurses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Caring Science, Abo Academy University, Vasa, Finland. gudrun.rudolfsson@comhem.se
authors.forename: Gudrun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rudolfsson
authors.forename: Iréne
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: von Post
authors.forename: Katie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Eriksson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003142:Communication; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009719:Nurse Anesthetists / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D024802:Nurse's Role / Q000523:psychology; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D009871:Operating Room Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden