Abstract
Objective: To identify the aspects of the preoperative nursing consultation to show its benefits for the patient and the care. Methods: This is a descriptive narrative bibliographical review, based on the databases of the Virtual Health Library (VHL) and the Nursing Database (BDEnf) and the academic search engine Google Academic, using the descriptors "surgery" , "Infirmary and preoperative visit. There were also articles for discussion, in addition to a Handbook of Best Practices. Results: Education for health, physical and emotional preparation, prevention of complications, non-postoperative and in various ways, no preoperative information. Final considerations: The systematic function of preoperative care provides the nurses with the possibility of performing the integral preparation of the patient to the anesthetic-surgical procedure, qualifying him to experience the most pre-operative possible and a post-operative ware and damages , using the stressful process less traumatic.