Effective Nursing Intervention in Reducing Surgical Patients Complication and Prolonged Hospitalization

Caring is the vital core and the essence of nursing. Nursing care incorporates physical, emotional, mental and social aspects of life, so as to improve patient health and wellbeing. A patient’s wait time and length of stay commences as soon as they walk through the doors of a hospital department and terminate when the patient is discharged home. Prolonged hospitalization is described as length of stay longer than two weeks. Nurses play a significant role in decreasing surgical patients’ complications and the length of hospital stay as they are in the core of patient care. Nursing Intervention when put in place by nurses enhances the total wellbeing of patients, limits long waiting time and reduce prolong hospitalization. It is therefore recommended among others that teamwork should be encouraged among nurses in nursing intervention process.

Keywords: Nursing Intervention, Surgical Patients, Complication, Prolonged Hospitalization,