Relatives in the waiting-room of a surgical unit in a hospital: perception of information received

Abstract

This survey identifies the perception demonstrated by relatives of patients who stay in a recovery room after anesthesia. After observing the relatives in the waiting-room, an instrument was organized and apied to a given group of people for the collection of the data. The results show the functioning of the information transmission process (staff-informant-family) as well as the feelings shown and reported by the people who keep company to the patients in the hospital.