Abstract
BACKGROUND: Prolonged recovery following colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery can result in physiological discomfort and psychological stress, underscoring the importance of effective perioperative care to enhance patient outcomes. AIM: To evaluate the impact of multidisciplinary collaborative enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) nursing on patients undergoing CRC surgery. METHODS: This study included 100 patients who underwent CRC surgery between August 2022 and August 2024. Patients were divided into two groups based on the perioperative nursing approach. The control group (n = 50) received conventional nursing care, whereas the observation group (n = 50) received multidisciplinary collaborative ERAS nursing. Postoperative recovery time, disease perception, pain levels, coping strategies, self-management efficacy, and quality of life were compared between the two groups. RESULTS: Compared with the control group, the observation group exhibited significantly shorter times to ambulation, gastrointestinal motility, first meal intake, and hospital stay (P < 0.05). No significant differences were observed in pre-nursing indicators between the two groups (P > 0.05). After nursing, both groups showed improvements in disease perception scores, self-management efficacy, and quality of life scores, along with reductions in pain levels and coping strategy scores, except for the confrontative and venting dimensions. The observation group demonstrated significantly greater improvements in these scores, with significant intergroup and intragroup differences (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Multidisciplinary collaborative ERAS nursing can facilitate postoperative recovery in patients with CRC, enhance disease cognition, alleviate pain, and encourage active coping, thereby improving self-management efficacy and quality of life.