TY - THES AB - Pain in the post-operative patient serves no purpose ordinarily. Pain present in postoperative patients limits movement hinders necessary coughing and deep breathing exercises, slows early ambulation, and increases anxiety. This study focused on determining postoperative pain's effects in cardiac surgery patients when Progressive Relaxation was invoked as a systematic nursing intervention. AD - University of Oregon AU - Curtin Bafford, Doris DA - 1974 DO - 10.6083/M40C4T02 DO - DOI ED - Rawlinson, May ED - Gregerson, Lucile ED - O'Connor, Carol ED - Brookhart, John M. ED - Advisor ED - Collaborator ED - Collaborator ED - Committee chair ID - 1797 KW - Pain KW - Relaxation KW - Cardiac Surgical Procedures KW - Autogenic Training KW - Early Ambulation KW - Pain, Postoperative KW - postoperative L1 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/1797/files/2500_etd.pdf L2 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/1797/files/2500_etd.pdf L4 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/1797/files/2500_etd.pdf LA - eng LK - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/1797/files/2500_etd.pdf N2 - Pain in the post-operative patient serves no purpose ordinarily. Pain present in postoperative patients limits movement hinders necessary coughing and deep breathing exercises, slows early ambulation, and increases anxiety. This study focused on determining postoperative pain's effects in cardiac surgery patients when Progressive Relaxation was invoked as a systematic nursing intervention. PB - University of Oregon PY - 1974 T1 - Progressive relaxation as a nursing intervention: a method of controlling pain in the open heart surgery patient TI - Progressive relaxation as a nursing intervention: a method of controlling pain in the open heart surgery patient UR - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/1797/files/2500_etd.pdf Y1 - 1974 ER -