Anxiety testing is feasible during the preoperative period. Such testing allows for the detection of patients with high anxiety, and for clinicians to take the appropriate steps to ameliorate this problem. Identification of patient anxiety allows for providing a focus on social support in an attempt to reduce the level of anxiety.

Spirituality should be more widely included in nursing education.

Nurses can prepare an environment aiding sleep as a way to increase surgical patients' sleep quality in hospital.

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