Preoperative Management and Nursing Care Using The Nursing Process

9. What is pre-operative checklist?

The Preoperative Checklist is completed by clinicians working within their scope of clinical practice and is designed to aid patient preparation prior to their transfer to theatre and support effective clinical handover when there is a transfer of professional responsibility and accountability

Preoperative care of surgical patient

Preoperative care refers to the physical and psychosocial care that prepares a patient to undergo surgery safely. The preoperative period begins when the patient is booked for surgery and ends with their transfer to the theatre or surgical suite.

Providing patient information

• Nutritional support.
• Smoking cessation.
• Alcohol intake.
• Risk of surgery.
• Potential complications.
• Fasting preoperatively.
• Bowel preparation.
• Management of medicines.