What is Most Important for You Now? Person-Centered Postoperative Care in the PACU

THE CONCEPT OF person-centered care (PCC) has an extensive long history in health care and can be traced back to Florence Nightingale, who differentiated between nursing and medicine through nursing's focus on the patient rather than the disease. In 1950, Hildegard E. Peplau, the first published nursing theorist since Nightingale, stated that the interpersonal relationship between the nurse and patient lay at the crux of nursing and that interpersonal relationships have shifted the focus from the clinician to the person receiving care, thus giving control to that individual.
Source: Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: The Back Page Source Type: research