The implications of day surgery for in-patient hospital wards

Edwards, N.

Nursing Times 92(37): 32-34

1996


ISSN/ISBN: 0954-7762
PMID: 8920286
Document Number: 458185
Day surgery is seen as cost-effective and it has reduced waiting list times. This paper shows, however, that its effects on in-patient wards, nurses' workload and emergency medical occupancy of surgical beds have given rise to unexpected problems and that nurses' roles in hospitals and in the community are affected by these changes.

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