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Individualised Nursing Care of Operative Surgical Patients

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The purpose of this chapter is to describe the nature and implementation of individualised nursing care among surgical patients. The nature of this care is operational, the patient-professional contact is short and the emphasis is on supporting recovery and self-management by educational activities. In this chapter, we first describe the nature of individualised surgical nursing care and then move on to the support of this care.

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    Helena Leino-Kilpi & Sunna Rannikko

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Leino-Kilpi, H., Rannikko, S. (2019). Individualised Nursing Care of Operative Surgical Patients. In: Suhonen, R., Stolt, M., Papastavrou, E. (eds) Individualized Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89899-5_10

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