It is fundamental that the nurse know what the patient wants to know,being necessary, prepare them properly, according to their perceptions and expectations, directing the orientation according to its particularity and with its ability to assimilate information. In ambulatory surgery it is important that the nurse talk to the patien and his partner, preparing them to take on the preoperative and postoperative care, being essential that the same person who receives the guidelines prior to surgery, remains with the patient on the day and provide the care at home. This partner is essential, especially for eldery patients, because of the difficulties of self- care that this age group presents.
The nurse, in providing care in the preoperative period, has to be sure that the use of contact lenses by patients was interrupted because the lenses change the curvature of the eye and can affect the final result of the treatment. He should note also if the patient did or did not use of vessel dilator, if he is fasting during a period of at least 4 hours, if he did scalp hygiene and face before going to the hospital. The nurse also neds to be attentive to the administration of eye drops dilators, which need to be applied to every 10 minutes during four doses, at least 1 hour before suegery. Eye drops antibiotics are also administered, steroids and antiinframmatory drugs prophy lactically, to pirevent infection and post-operative inflammation.