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2012: A Year of Quality
NEW YEARS IS but a memory and 2012 is now well underway. As we move into the New Year, we are provided with an excellent opportunity to glance into the future and examine trends and set goals for the ...
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Vallire D. Hooper
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Postanesthesia Care Unit Visitation Decreases Family Member Anxiety
Despite advocacy by professional nursing organizations, no randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have evaluated the response of family members to a visit with an adult patient during a postanesthesia ca...
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Amy J. Carter,
JoAnn Deselms,
Shelley Ruyle,
Marcella Morrissey-Lucas,
Suzie Kollar,
Shelly Cannon,
Lois Schick
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Timing of Postoperative Education in the Pediatric Population
26 December 2011
The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the impact of timing for providing parents with postoperative education in the pediatric setting, their ability to retain information, and their satisfa...
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Margaret Ruiz,
Natasha Rivers,
Rodica S. Pop
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Preventing Inadvertent Hypothermia: Comparing Two Protocols for Preoperative Forced-Air Warming
Preoperative forced-air warming is one way of preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia. There is scant evidence, however, on the best warming method or the acceptability of these methods to pa...
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Kerry-Anne Cobbe,
Renatta Di Staso,
Jed Duff,
Kim Walker,
Nicole Draper
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Challenges for Professional Nurses in Other Countries
AS SOCIAL NETWORKING and Internet connectivity become more available throughout the world, nurses around the globe are able to communicate and learn from each other. They can now share experiences and...
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Patricia Muller-Smith
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Experiences of Nurses Related to Prolonged-Stay Patients in a Postanesthesia Care Unit in Karachi, Pakistan
26 December 2011
The role of the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) is to provide short-term monitoring of patients after surgery until recovery from anesthesia. The transfer of patients from the PACU to their designated...
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Sharifa Bashir Lalani,
Zeenatkhanu Kanji,
Fauziya Ali
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26-36
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Evidence Into Practice: Basic Steps for Planning Your Evidence Search
As A Clinical education librarian, I have the opportunity to work with clinicians in their quest for evidence, and, as a result, I have observed occasional obstacles during the search process. In this...
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Jennifer Deberg,
Susan Adams,
Laura Cullen
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Informatics Competence in the EHR Era
WHAT ARE YOU looking forward to in 2014? For the informatics and information technology (IT) world, 2014 is the year in which all Americans are required to have an electronic health record (EHR). It w...
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Matthew D. Byrne
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Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia
26 December 2011
HYPERALGESIA MEANS INCREASED sensitivity to pain. Opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH) is a paradoxical situation in which increasing doses of opioid result in increasing sensitivity to pain. OIH has bee...
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Chris Pasero,
Margo McCaffery
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Top Seven Missteps by Authors Submitting Manuscripts to the Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing
26 December 2011
AUTHORS OFTEN MAKE similar missteps when submitting manuscripts to a scholarly journal. After querying the current editors of the Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, seven common missteps were identifi...
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Daniel D. Moos
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Responsible Social Networking
THE USE OF social media, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, Second Life and other similar sites are increasing exponentially. A Pew report from early 2010 stated that amo...
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Jan Odom-Forren
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