Surgical care aims to patient safety and safeguarding their human dignity, is implemented through the use of more sophisticated and complex technologies available to modern biomedicine. Its proper use requires a much more intellectual craft, or occupation and not a trade, through the work of a multidisciplinary team and the trade in which the nurse plays vital role. In the team dedicated to the surgical care nurse plays an equally important for the surgeon, with functions that are interdependent and complementary.
Surgical nursing care is the responsibility of professional nurses, or university education, with growing demand for specialized studies, which have under his charge or supervision to a variety of professional, technical and administrative functions has important management directly or indirectly to the patient.
The nurse plays a leadership, coordinating and example, and she is really determined by the level of care of a surgical service.
Also, because the nurse is the one who really cared for in a permanent and continuous patient, and because it is she who keeps the most intimate contact, becomes the person that best conveys the image and spirit of a hospital. It is recognized that a high level of hospital nursing actions are those that have deeper impact, ultimately, the quality of care, and those that are best perceived by the community, represented by the pa-tion and their associates, or their behavior is interpreted, more than any other of the participants as an indicator of excellent quality.
That is why nursing should be recognized in the modern hospital as a fundamental human element to the success of your operation. And that’s why the nurses, perhaps more than any other female profession, it will be increasingly sought and will quickly climb the career ladder of importance in society, emerging as one of the greatest development in the near future.
