A multidisciplinary approach to breast biopsy

The explosion in technological advances has provided physicians and patients more options in the diagnostic breast biopsy arena. Successful collaborative relationships between nurses, physicians, and all health care workers and detailed patient education are essential to provide optimum patient care. Survival in health care today mandates that perioperative nurses and their colleagues move outside traditional environments to provide quality, cost-effective care to patients and their family members. The aim of this collaborative approach to breast biopsy is to provide patients with the most expedient, accurate, cost-effective diagnoses with the least amount of physical and psychological trauma.