Valencia, Spain | 16 - 18 May 2024 11th EORNA Congress Parallel Sessions 23 postoperatively was higher than the experimental group does (p<0.05). No significant difference was determined in the third week in the evaluation of quality of life scores (p>0.05). Conclusion: The Knee Prosthesis School was effective in making patients have more realistic expectations, reducing their anxiety and pain, increasing their functional status, and satisfaction. 142 Behind closed doors - the lived experience of caring for patients in the perioperative setting John Tarrant1, Vanessa Heaslip2, Caroline Ellis-Hill1, Martin Hind1 1Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 2University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom Background: There is a large research base guiding practitioners on technical aspects in the perioperative setting. However, this focus can risk overshadowing the value of more subjective, human ideas around care. Objectives: (1) to describe what it is like to care for patients in the perioperative setting. (2) recommend future research and practice development to support humanising perioperative care. Methods: Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological method was used to understand the lived experience of those caring for patients. As planned, seven healthcare workers were interviewed, and their verbatim transcripts were analysed using Giorgi’s method of analysis. Results: The findings include a description that is made up of a general structure and its constituent parts: General Structure - perioperative care means accepting patients into an unfamiliar, alien environment as fictive kin. Within this sense of caring and being cared for, the usual human freedoms are silently handed over; with unconsciousness severing any final freedoms. In response, staff become custodians of their kin and their body. This custodial care places the highest level of responsibility on staff who know how to care with skill, morals, and ownership to protect the person, who has lost freedoms, with dignified care. Custodianship is transient. Some staff may transfer custodianship to others but ultimately there is an aim to return the body back to the patient. Constituent Parts include: (1) your patient and you: fictive kinship, (2) custodian of the body and the person, (3) knowing what to do, (4) decision making. Conclusion: The novel description of custodial care for healthcare practice can focus further research, contribute to education design, guide perioperative practitioners, informing new standards/best practice and unveil secrecy for patients. This study made the implicit into something explicit, so that the human aspects of caring can be recognized and celebrated.
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