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Peer reviewedDevine, Elizabeth C.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1988
A three-hour, two-stage workshop for staff nurses on providing education and psychological support to 148 patients who had abdominal surgery. After the workshop the patients used fewer sedatives or antiemetics, fewer hypnotics, and were discharged from the hospital on the average half a day sooner. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Counseling, Emotional Adjustment, Hospitals, Internal Medicine
