post-op confusion, she says.
"When they listen to the music, patients don't wake up fighting the
tubes," says Dr. Cash. "They wake up relaxed, saying, 'This is the
same music I was listening to when I fell asleep.'"
• Image-guided therapy. Instead of checking Facebook on their
iPhones, give patients an iPad in pre-op and let them watch nature
videos set to music. Studies show this image-guided therapy eases
patients' pre-op anxiety and raises their self-efficacy (the belief that
you can).
"Anxiety has a direct affect on a person's perception of pain," says
Margaret M. Hansen, EdD, MSN, CNL, RN, a semi-retired associate
professor at the University of San Francisco School of Nursing &
Health Professions. "If you reduce anxiety, you also increase their
belief that they will be able to take care of themselves after surgery.
That is what you want with a surgical patient."
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