Nursing activities during this period focus on safety, infection prevention, opening additional sterile supplies to the field if needed and documenting applicable segments of the intraoperative report in the patients Electronic Health Record.
The postoperative period begins after the transfer to the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and terminates with the resolution of the surgical sequelae.
Postoperative recovery is commonly used as a concept and can mean different thing in different contexts and to different actors such as healthcare professionals and patients.
Postoperative recovery is an energy- requiring complex process of returning to normality and wholeness that starts immediately after surgery and continues long after discharge.
For patients recovery includes different turning points such as regaining independence and control over physical, psychological, social, and habitual functions and well-being.