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V D Wagner

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PubMed1995

A historical decline of educational perioperative clinical experiences.

This historical study identifies sociocultural and economic influences that have contributed to the decline of educational perioperative clinical experiences. Three themes were identified: the professional versus the technical role of OR nurses debate, the nurse generalist versus the nurse specialist debate, and the relative lack of control that nursing has over its own destiny. Recommendations to reverse this trend include increasing the visibility of perioperative nurses to the public and within the profession of nursing, structuring efforts to capitalize on the changes occurring in nursing education, and promoting a stronger affiliation between nursing academia and practice settings.

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Intraoperatively acquired pressure ulcers.

1. Pressure ulcer formation is a major health care concern when one considers the costs involved and patient morbidity and mortality. Patients with skin ulcers experience pain, disfigurement, immobility, septicemia, longer hospitalizations, and sometimes death. 2. Pressure ulcers are one of the most common iatrogenic illnesses in health care that affect special patient populations--the elderly and the immobile. 3. Both cost and improvement in the patient's quality of life are important concerns in the implementation of improved prevention activities.

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