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Reducing The Surgical Patient's Family Member's Anxiety Using An Electronic Patient Tracking Board, Pamela M. Barberi
Reducing The Surgical Patient's Family Member's Anxiety Using An Electronic Patient Tracking Board, Pamela M. Barberi
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Family members of surgical patients experience anxiety due to lack of consistent communication during the surgical process. Attending to the needs of the surgical patient's family members is an important factor easily forgotten in a busy clinical arena. The purpose of this project was to decrease the surgical patient's family member's anxiety by providing family members with timely and consistent information regarding the patient's progress through surgery. The theoretical foundation used was general systems theory showing that a change in one part of a system leads to change in the whole system with the use of improved communication and feedback. …