Affiliations: Day Surgery Ward, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC (Anhui Provincial Hospital), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China | Tel.: +86 55162283316; E-mail: libangju3315@163.com
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Corresponding author: Day Surgery Ward, The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC (Anhui Provincial Hospital), Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China. Tel.: +86 55162283316; E-mail: libangju3315@163.com.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Standardised management of day surgery for haemorrhoids and achieving standardised nursing in the painless ward of colorectal surgery are important. OBJECTIVE: To explore the role of segmented nursing pathways in patients undergoing day surgery for anorectal procedures and to provide theoretical and practical guidance for day surgery nursing. METHODS: A total of 146 patients undergoing anorectal surgery in our day surgery ward between April 2023 and July 2023 were selected as the study participants, with 74 patients in the control group receiving routine nursing and 72 patients in the experimental group receiving segmented nursing. The preoperative preparedness, preoperative anxiety, complication rate, discharge preparedness and nursing satisfaction were compared between the two groups. RESULTS: The experimental group had higher rates of admission before 8:30 am (77.78% vs 45.95%), awareness of the day surgery process (63.89% vs 24.32%), completion rate of preoperative preparation (81.94% vs 59.46%), satisfaction with preoperative preparation (94.44% vs 74.32%), discharge preparedness (112.42 ± 3.28 vs 95.82 ± 3.41) and nursing satisfaction (97.22% vs 70.27%) compared with the control group (P< 0.05). After the intervention, the self-rating anxiety scale score (43.14 ± 12.44 vs 52.51 ± 13.21) and the self-rating depression scale score (45.03 ± 11.37 vs 55.37 ± 10.14) were lower in the experimental group than in the control group (P< 0.05). CONCLUSION: Segmented nursing pathways can improve the preoperative preparedness of patients undergoing day surgery for anorectal procedures, alleviate patient anxiety, enhance discharge preparedness, improve the quality of nursing care and increase nursing satisfaction.
