Difficulties in intraoperative care

Difficult situations which occur intraoperatively have a direct impact on nurses working within the area. A study was undertaken focusing nurses’ confrontations with difficult situations where the narrations from twelve nurses were taped. A phenomenological method was used to analyse this information and revealed how difficult intraoperative situations arise and how the nurses found different ways of handling these situations.

by Annika Larsson Mauléon and Sirkka-Liisa EkmanCorrespondence address: Annika Larsson Mauléon, School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnæus University, S-351 95 Växjö, Sweden. Email: Annika.larsson_mauleon@lnu.se