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Commencement Program 1978 (School Of Nursing), Loma Linda University
Commencement Program 1978 (School Of Nursing), Loma Linda University
Commencement Programs
CONTENTS
2 | The Program
3 | The Classes
4 | Allan Fineman Memorial Award
Commencement Program 1978, Loma Linda University
Commencement Program 1978, Loma Linda University
Commencement Programs
CONTENTS
2 | 1978 Events of Commencement
3 | Conferring of Degrees
7 | Candidates for Degrees
26 | Awards
28 | Academic Costume
The Effect Of Preoperative Instruction And Unit Orientation On Selected Postoperative Factors Of Nonemergency Critical Care Surgical Patients, Sharon Stephens Espersen
The Effect Of Preoperative Instruction And Unit Orientation On Selected Postoperative Factors Of Nonemergency Critical Care Surgical Patients, Sharon Stephens Espersen
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The intensive care unit's effect on the patient has become a subject discussed often by nurses and other health team members. One of the nursing interventions that has been implemented to attempt to de crease the potentially harmful environmental effects of the ICU on the patient is orienting the patient about what to expect prior to the ICU admittance.
A major problem is that most intensive care unit (ICU) patients are admitted to the unit on an emergency basis. Few studies, therefore, have focused on the effects of preoperative instruction of ICU patients. The studies that have been done were …