title: Preparing patients to undergo surgery.
abstract: Pre-operative preparation is vital to patient safety and a key nursing role. Careful preparation can minimise anxiety, and therefore physical effects, and ensure patients arrive in the operating department ready for surgery. This involves a range of procedures, including ensuring patients understand the operation, and are able to give informed consent, unless this is not possible due to age or mental capacity.
authors.affiliation: Birmingham City University.
authors.forename: Cathy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liddle
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D018529:Nutritional Support / Q000451:nursing*; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D012944:Social Support