BACKGROUND:
Preoperative education has been found to be responsible for patients having a realistic expectation of surgery as well as high level of satisfaction with their recovery. The Joint Academy offers preoperative educational classes for all patients undergoing elective knee and hip replacements.
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this descriptive study was to determine whether the education provided by The Joint Academy has an impact on anxiety, expectation, and preparedness in patients who undergo elective total knee or hip arthroplasty.
METHODS:
All patients who had total joint or hip arthroplasty over a 2-month period were invited to participate in this descriptive correlational study.
RESULTS:
Of the 49 study participants, 28 attended The Joint Academy. Those who attended The Joint Academy were more likely to hold surgical expectations that better correlated with actual experience (p = .425). There was no statistically significant difference between the groups for nervousness (p = .171) or feeling prepared for the surgery (p = .425).
CONCLUSION:
Offering education before knee or hip arthroplasty provides patients with an understanding of the expectations related to surgery.
Nurse faculty have a responsibility to examine nursing incidents that have a negative effect on students and identify methods for improvement. The purpose of this study was to explore nursing students' perceptions of weekly incidents that impact learning in order to alert faculty to problems early in the program of study. A qualitative descriptive design was used to identify common themes of first-semester BSN students' perceptions using Brookfield's Critical Incident Questionnaire. Four themes were identified. Critical reflection, analysis, and active learning are vital components in nursing education.
This study showed that military nurses have unique experiences that influenced their way of promoting health and healing. Interconnectedness with family (personal and military) had many positive and negative factors. Interconnectedness with the health care team was more prominent for the nurses during military service than in the civilian arena. Global interconnectedness included working with teams from around the world, helping children of detainees see that Americans were not evil, and caring for international communities. Military service strengthened the three human qualities of mind, body, and spirit, which resulted in increasing each military nurse's human potential by enabling them to serve as instruments of healing on a global scale.
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