Surgical Complications

After careful review of this study, as a semester II nursing student, it is important to understand how surgical complications can pose significant challenges on patients’ recovery, and to implement interventions to help prevent postoperative pulmonary complication, such as deep breathing exercises. Currently, many hospitals, including my clinical placement at Richmond hospital, have implemented preoperative and postoperative standards of care that encourages the patients to perform deep breathing at least every two hours while they are awake. In my current clinical placement on the general surgical unit, deep breathing and coughing exercises are encouraged to patients on a regular basis, to help improve in oxygenation and to prevent complications