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Nursing Considerations During Patient Recovery

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Nurses are key professionals in enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) care and play a central part of the team taking care of the surgical patient. They are at the forefront of daily patient care and have therefore a major impact on securing the adherence to ERAS pathway elements. Nursing within ERAS care implies a shift from traditional nursing to additional important tasks, including dedicated information (setting expectations), coaching of patients, and control, monitoring, and documentation of the recovery process.

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  1. Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Department of Visceral Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

    Basile Pache

  2. Department of Visceral Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

    Valérie Addor

  3. Department of Visceral Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

    Martin Hübner

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    Nader K. Francis

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s, Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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Pache, B., Addor, V., Hübner, M. (2020). Nursing Considerations During Patient Recovery. In: Ljungqvist, O., Francis, N., Urman, R. (eds) Enhanced Recovery After Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33443-7_25

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