Perioperative Nursing Role in Robotic Surgery: An Integrative Review

Purpose: Robotic surgery is an increasingly popular approach across surgical specialties in several countries. Nurses embedded in this highly technological environment, however, could excessively center their atten-tion to the robot, deviating their focus from the patient. The Perioperative Patient Focused Model is proposed as a theoretical framework to guide nursing perioperative care toward a patient-centered approach based on 4 dimensions: Health System, Safety, Behavioral Responses and Physiological Responses. This review aimed to understand the role of perioperative nursing in robotic surgery according to the Perioperative Patient Focused Model.Design: An integrative review. Methods: The Whittemore and Knafl methodology guided this review. The following databases were searched: PubMed, Cochrane Library, ProQuest, Scielo, and LILACS. The keywords used were "Robotic Surgical Procedures" and "Nursing" and their equivalents in Spanish, Portuguese, and French, using the Boolean oper-ator "AND," within the time frame of 2010-2021.Findings: A total of 1,695 articles were retrieved, of which 26 were retained for the final analysis. The majority (n = 17) were written in English, with a level of evidence between 4 and 5. The main actions performed by nursing professionals were retrieved in the Health Systems, Safety, and Behavioral Responses dimensions, focusing on the intraoperative and postoperative period. However, most of the patient's responses were pre-sented in the postoperative stage, even after discharge. Encompassing these findings, a theoretical frame-work is proposed.Conclusions: Nursing professional duties are diverse within the course of robotic surgery. It is necessary to expand the Perioperative Nursing specialty toward an extended care, encompassing even the community settings.& COPY; 2022 American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.