different hospital giving her the choice to walk herself into the OR,
Bonnie Weinberg, MSN, RN, CNOR, clinical practice specialist at The
Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J., wanted to see how giving the option
to patients to either walk into the OR on their own or be rolled in on a
stretcher would affect the level of anxiety in patients.
For her study, she randomly assigned 60 patients to either walk or be
wheeled in to the OR. She asked patients questions pre- and post-oper-
atively that related to their anxiety and self-efficacy. From the results,
Ms. Weinberg says the facility found that "asking patients whether they
would like to walk into the operating room may increase self-efficacy
and decrease anxiety, which in turn may yield more positive outcomes
and a higher sense of satisfaction."
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