Abstract
Only 7% of oncology patients complete enough low-impact exercise despite long-term benefit. Prehabilitation is a method to build functional status before major stressors, such as surgery. To improve patient recovery, a nurse practitioner developed a prehabilitation pilot program at a busy surgical center focusing on providing physical therapy exercises to oncologic patients before major abdominal surgery. This article delineates the creation, implementation, assessment of benefits, and improvement measures of the pilot program in detail, which resulted in a 59.93% increase in participants’ functional status (N = 6).
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