Unmet Information and Communication Needs in the Intermediate Recovery from Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

Facilitators and Barriers of Heart Surgery Discharge

“…Tailoring discharge information and giving patients opportunities to interact and communicate their experiences would facilitate patients' sense of coherence during recovery. 2…”

The Occurrence of Problems in Connections with the Saphenous Vein Harvest Surgical Site? A Telephone Interview Project Three Months after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery

“…Despite this, several of them still suffered from the aftermath of surgery. The nature of discharge information has been shown to be of particular importance to recovery outcome following CABG surgery (9,10). It is important to acknowledge that nursing care is as an increasingly complicated activity and "nursing complexity is such that it can be seen as the quintessential complex intervention" (11).…”

Learning What I Need to Know: Experiences of Rural Cardiac Surgery Patients

“…Participants interviewed at the time of hospital discharge are able to relate learning experiences during the most acute phase of their recovery. This phase of recovery entails the existential meaning of the heart and can influence the extent to which cardiac patients have the capacity to learn what they need to know to recover from cardiac surgery (Martinsen & Moen, 2010). Participants interviewed six weeks following hospital discharge are able to relate learning experiences during the home phase of recovery.…”