Abstract Day surgery health officers encounter a substantial challenge when it comes to balancing between attending all patients within the limited timeframe and the need to offer sufficient verbal information about the health of the same patients and their families. Mark Mitchell’s article, which forms the basis of this paper, examines this challenge in detail. This paper presents a critique of Mitchell’s article to gauge the author’s expertise in assembling the content from the introduction to the study’s conclusive remarks. Specifically, it will evaluate the author’s style of introducing the article to assess the clarity and relevance of the underlying research problem. It will also comment on the methods applied in the study, including an assessment of the results, before appraising its implications for practice and the overall presentation. Introduction The article “Day Surgery Nurses’ Selection of Patient Preoperative Information” forms part of Mark Mitchell’s work. The research examines the pressure witnessed by elective day surgery medical doctors, especially when it comes to interacting or verbally communicating with the highly increasing number of patients in need of health professionals’ timely services. However, this research problem is not clearly stated since the author never specifies the extent of this problem, for instance, whether it is only prevalent in some countries, or it is a global phenomenon. This problem is important to nursing because providing accurate verbal information in preoperative nursing immediately before and after surgery is significant. It helps to enhance professionalism in terms of improved nurse-patient contact. The justification for the study is that day-case surgery is on the increase. According to Mitchell (2016), despite the rising numbers of patients who need to be attended to by day surgery nurses, it is worrying that the level of nurse-patient interaction is getting inadequate, hence implying that such medical officers do not get ample time to disseminate sufficient information as expected to the patients and their families concerning their health status. The author does not state the corresponding hypotheses or questions that this research seeks to address. However, the reader assumes that Mitchell wanted to respond to the question of whether increased verbal information between patients and day surgery nurses could enhance the speed of their (patients) recovery. However, the study’s aims and objectives are well stated in the article. The research seeks to investigate the assortment and release of the appropriate preoperative oral information to patients immediately before and after they undergo a surgical procedure (Mitchell, 2016). The conceptual framework used in the paper is founded on verbal message delivery mechanisms, information conveyance, and preoperative information. The framework is clearly identified in the entire article. The author links it to the research purpose of gauging the best and the most effective information that day surgery nurses can assemble for dissemination to their patients and their relatives, despite the limited time available for such a practice. The research literature is current since the date of publication of most of the materials used ranges from 2009 to 2015. The other few older materials have been used intentionally as a way of comparing the situation then and now, a strategy that helps the author to confirm that indeed the rising patient turnover