A telephone survey of day surgery eye patients

The objective of this research study was to evaluate the nursing care processes and patient satisfaction with the new day-surgery services. Forty-five adult day-surgery eye patients were selected at random to take part in a telephone survey. The response rate was 84·4% (38). Patients were contacted 48 hours post-surgery to obtain their view of the entire surgical experience. The research result found that the majority of the patients were satisfied with the day-surgery services. The main problems experienced by patients were long waiting times to see the doctor during pre-operation assessment, unsatisfactory journeys to and from theatre, and difficulty in remembering verbal advice. Twenty-eight (73·6%) of the day-surgery patients would prefer day-surgery again for a similar operation, but 10 (26·3%) would prefer a longer stay in hospital. The main implications for practice are that realistic assessment time should be allocated to reduce waiting time, verbal advice should be accompanied by written leaflets or audio-tape, and patients should be encouraged to make an informed choice about day or in-patient surgery. A regular survey of day-surgery eye patients should be part of a general audit

Interação mãe-criança: enfoques teóricos e implicações decorrentes de estudos empíricos Mother-child relationship: theoretical views and implications of empirical data review

Este trabalho consistiu na revisão das principais posições teóricas sobre a relação mãe-criança e as decorrências metodológicas de tais concepções nos dados empíricos delas resultantes. A análise desses dados permite destacar dois aspectos: (1) que a presença da mãe age como facilitador para um conjunto significativo de aspectos do desenvolvimento do bebê, com destaque para a organização de "estados", características sensório-perceptivas, cognição a partir do elo de ligação criado entre ambos; (2) muitas características dos infantes importantes à interação eliciam responsividade e cuidados dos agentes com os quais os bebês interagem no sentido de harmonizar-se ou de sincronizar-se em tal relação. Essa mutualidade já se faz presente nos primórdios do desenvolvimento social inicial.<br>This paper consisted of a review of the most important theoretical views about the mother child relationship on the conceptual approaches and their possible effects on methodology. Empirical data resulted from research on the area have shown that: (1) the mother is an effective facilitator on a set of domains of infant's development, with focus on the "states organization", sensorial-perceptual capacities and cognition; (2) characteristics of infant and mother as interactive agents - mutuality - aiming to promote harmonic and synchronic relationship between the dyad are present on early social development