Abstract
The psychological effects after traumatic hand injury, long hours of microsurgery, and an uncertain future can be hidden under the demands of technical care. Psychological changes affect many of these patients, the outcome of their surgery, length of hospital stay, time off from work, and costs. Nursing support about biopsychosocial aspects of finger replantation microsurgery extrapolated from 30 years of medical and nursing articles, and from the authors' current experience, resulted in new perspectives on what the patients are experiencing and how nurses can promote healing at each recovery level.