Indian Journal of Surgical Nursing

 Nurses responsibility is the vital part in health services which has the two major disciplines as medical and surgical. On the account of surgery nurses play a crictal and important role in maintain the quality of nursing care. The nursing care depends in the OT as the need of patients such as either  diagnostic purpose or  treatment with the standard safety measures in the prevention of infection .

 Advancements in human healthcare are on an all time high. The treatment system is becoming hi-tech and sophisticated and vulnerable to errors at the same time.  Various disasters have occurred due to medication errors at different levels of healthcare delivery. Ongoing quality improvement programs for monitoring medication errors are needed. Medication errors should be identified and documented and their causes studied in order to develop systems that minimize recurrence. Patient education and participation in their own  healthcare decisions should be encouraged. Thus, it is the need of the hour to give a wake-up call and all those concerned should join hands to solve this gigantic problem.  However, if a little bit of extra caution is observed by the various stakeholders these can be prevented largely.

 Until recently, financial incentive was the prime motivation in transplantation of kidneys from nonrelated living donors in India. Prior to the Human Organ Transplantation Act of 1994, it was legal in all states of India to purchase and merchandise organs, eliminating the opportunity for black markets currently created by the enormous demand for organs. Despite the Transplantation of Human Organ Act passed in Indian Parliament in 1994, cadaver liver and/or kidney transplant are infrequently performed (in a few private hospitals) in our country compared to living donor liver or kidney transplant. The need for performing more cadaver liver and/or kidney transplants in private and public hospitals is obvious. Immediate measures which should be taken to facilitate more cadaver organ transplant both in private and public hospitals are suggested. This article reveals attitudes and beliefs about organ donation in India from the perspectives of the public. Mistrust of the medical profession and concerns about illegal buying and selling of organs were some major issues in organ donation. Additional issues were the need for public education, advertisement, and role models to promote organ donation in India. 

 A study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of Music Therapy in reduction of Anxiety among Patients undergoing Dialysis in selected Hospitals in Hyderabad, Telangana. Patients were selected by random sampling technique. The conceptual framework of the study was based on modified Imogene King’s Goal Attainment Model. Data were collected by using modified Zung Anxiety Rating Scale from  50 patients undergoing Dialysis. The study revealed that majority of the patients (88%) reported moderate to severe anxiety in pre-test, whereas (56%) reported mild to minimum anxiety level after the Music Therapy.  The statistical “t” test value was found to be significant at 0.001 level and thus it is inferred that Music Therapy is highly effective in the reduction of Anxiety level among Patients undergoing Dialysis.