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VIDEO: Peggy Tilley - What Post-Operative Care Should Women Expect At The Advanced Spine Institute?

Peggy explains the post-operative care women should expect at Alvarado Hospital’s Advanced Spine Institute.

Peggy:
Once our patients are up and doing well and mobilizing on their own, they are discharged home with very set discharge instructions, and they can expect a call from the nurses within 24 to 48 hours to see how they are doing. We try to find out if there were any areas that we could improve upon, any areas that they were greatly satisfied with, any people that we could recognize for their benefit, and if they are having problems, refer them to the physicians or answer the questions that possibly we can answer.

If they have questions or concerns regarding their care, that nurses could say, “Well, maybe a hot compress would work,” they would refer them to the physician if the pain is out of control or encourage them to take their pain medicine on a routine basis to keep their pain in control so that they can up be doing their exercises, walking, and that kind of thing to get themselves on the road to recovery.

About Peggy Tilley, R.N.:
Margaret “Peggy” Tilley has been an exemplary leader for the nursing department at Alvarado Hospital since 1987. She is currently the nursing director for medical-surgical services where she is responsible for the total patient care and supervision of five departments and more than 120 nurses. Her devotion to delivering the safest, most effective, quality patient care possible earned her a position on the San Diego Patient Safety Consortium—twice. In 2005, she was part of the elite team that evaluated significant areas of opportunity to reduce hospital mortalities by preventing medication errors and, in 2008, she returned to review patient-controlled analgesia. Peggy also was named a 2009 San Diego Healthcare Champion.

For More Information On The Advanced Spine Institute Visit Advanced Spine Institute & Minimally Invasive Spine Center At Alvarado Hospital.

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