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Quantification of phase I postanesthesia nursing activities in the phase II postanesthesia care unit

Nursing Outlook, 1997
Abstract Clinical trials are currently underway to determine whether use of new drugs and monitors may permit patients to go directly from the operating room to a phase II postanesthesia care unit. If such a practice pattern were implemented, would phase II postanesthesia care nurses have the ongoing clinical experience to recognize and treat acute ...

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Nursing Activities and Use of Time in the Postanesthesia Care Unit

Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing, 2005
Specialty areas, such as the PACU, are currently characterized by a shortage of qualified nursing personnel along with the pressure for a most cost-conscious function of services. These, in combination with both the increasing acuity of patients and the advances of science and technology, have rendered necessary the investigation of how existing ...
Panagiotis Kiekkas
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Nursing Management of Delirium in the Postanesthesia Care Unit and Intensive Care Unit

Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing, 2016
The purpose of the study was to examine nurses' approaches to care of patients with postoperative delirium in the postanesthesia care unit and intensive care unit.A descriptive survey design was used.Eighty-seven nurses who have been working at a Training and Research Hospital in Erzurum, east of Turkey, were enrolled in this study between October 1 ...
Yesim Yaman Aktas, Neziha Karabulut
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Nursing care for postanesthesia shivering

AORN Journal, 1979
Patient shivering during recovery from anesthesia is often observed by the recovery room nurse. This reaction usually passes quickly, and the recovery room nurse may be concerned mainly for the comfort of the patient who looks cold or who complains of feeling cold.
K P, Lewis, I, Cressey
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Pharmacokinetics in postanesthesia recovery: Implications for nurses

Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 1996
As the number of drugs used in the treatment of patients increases, nurses must be more knowledgeable about their activity and actions. This article reviews principles of pharmacokinetics, which is the study of how drugs attain their concentrations in the blood stream.
F D, Hicks, D M, Klein
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Handbook of Postanesthesia Nursing

AORN Journal, 1988
Handbook of Postanesthesia Nursing Edited by Mary Ellen Luczum 1987, 365 pp $3 7.50 ...
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Postanesthesia Nursing: A Comprehensive Guide.

AORN Journal, 1985
Mary Ellen Luczun, Postanesthesia Nursing: A Comprehensive Guide, 1984, Aspen Systems Corp, 1600 Research Blvd, Rockville, MD 20850, 310, $37.50 ...
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Reflections of a Postanesthesia Care Unit Night Nurse

Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 1996
The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses has long held the standard that two licensed personnel will be in the PACU during phase I of recovery. Not all areas of the country have been able to adhere to this standard. This is one nurse's reflections on the time spent "working alone" in the PACU.
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Postanesthesia care unit nursing: Just watching

Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 1998
The recovery room was one of the first units in the hospital to be specialized, and it dramatically decreased the complications and mortality rate of postoperative patients; but, like anything that has been around for a long time, the PACU is sometimes taken for granted, and can be regarded as a place where patients just sleep while nursing care ...
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Nurses' attitudes toward parental visitation on the postanesthesia care unit

Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 1997
Little has been documented in the nursing research literature about the desirability and the effects of parental visitation of children in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of PACU nurses about parental visitation in the PACU and the conditions under which PACU nurses believe that parental ...
L B, Jackson, J, Marcell, S, Benedict
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