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ERIC Number: EJ379494
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Clinical and Financial Effects of Psychoeducational Care Provided by Staff Nurses to Adult Surgical Patients in the Post-DRG Environment.
Devine, Elizabeth C.; And Others
American Journal of Public Health, v78 n10 p1293-97 Oct 1988
A three-hour, two-stage workshop for staff nurses on providing education and psychological support to 148 patients who had abdominal surgery. After the workshop the patients used fewer sedatives or antiemetics, fewer hypnotics, and were discharged from the hospital on the average half a day sooner. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Counseling, Emotional Adjustment, Hospitals, Internal Medicine, Medical Services, Nurses, Nursing Education, Patient Education, Patients, Program Evaluation, Surgery, Workshops
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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