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[The experience of clinical assessment as lived by surgical nurses in the context of best practice guidelines'
Hélène Guitard1, Cécile Michaud
1Hôpital Charles LeMoyne.
Abstract:
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study (Benner, 1994) was to understand the meaning of the experience of clinical assessment of surgery nurses in a context of implementation of best practices guidelines. The study was held in an affiliated university hospital (Québec, Canada) with nine registered nurses. Data were collected through an observation period of nursing assessment and semi-structured individual interviews. The results revealed four subthemes which, combined, compose this main theme: In a context of the implementation of best practices guidelines in nursing care, clinical assessment carried out by surgery nurses is an implicit, tactful, adapted and ongoing process, facilitated by the nurse's commitment to know the patient, his history and its future in order to promote positive outcomes.
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