Congruency Between Planned and Performed Procedures and Adherence to Recommended Perioperative Practices: A Chart Audit of High-Risk Surgical Patients.

Documentation in an electronic health record system helps ensure that perioperative personnel provide appropriate treatment and care to surgical patients. A retrospective chart review performed with an audit instrument sought to describe the extent to which the documented preoperative plan for a surgery corresponded to the procedure performed. The secondary aim was to describe to what extent perioperative nurses' and physicians' documented care was in accordance with national and international guidelines.

Operating theatre nurse specialist competence to ensure patient safety in the operating theatre: A discursive paper.

Aim: To discuss specialist operating theatre nurses' competence in relation to the general six core competencies and patient safety.

Design: A discursive analysis of legal statutes and scientific articles.

Methods: Swedish legal statutes and an overview of scientific articles on operating theatre nursing were deductively analysed and classified into healthcare providers' general six core competencies.

Prerequisites for safe intraoperative nursing care and teamwork-Operating theatre nurses' perspectives: A qualitative interview study.

Aim: To describe operating theatre nurses' experience of preconditions for safe intraoperative nursing care and teamwork.

Background: Surgical interventions are often needed for patients' well-being and survival from health problems. Adequate information to professionals responsible within the surgical organisation is of importance for patient safety in connection to the surgery.

Operating theatre nurses' experience of patient-related, intraoperative nursing care.

The way patient-related, intraoperative nursing care is performed by operating theatre nurses' has not been elucidated in any great detail. The aim of this study therefore was to describe theatre nurses' experience of patient-related, intraoperative nursing care. The study draws on qualitative, interpretive description methodology.

The hip and knee replacement operation: an extensive life event.

Background: A total hip replacement and a total knee replacement have shown to effectively reduce pain and disability in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip and knee joint despite associated risks. Even though the intervention primarily concerns older people with additional health problems, the patients stand on their feet the day after the operation and are discharged a few days later. Previous research indicates that reflections about life are related to the operation.

The lived body and the perioperative period in replacement surgery: older people's experiences.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to explore older people's experiences of their lived bodies during the perioperative period for a hip or knee replacement.

Background: Replacement surgery of a major joint for older people suffering from osteoarthritis is an established treatment in developed countries. Scientific knowledge is available on replacement surgery from several perspectives, but not about older people's experiences of the entire perioperative period of a replacement procedure.