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Pharmacokinetics in postanesthesia recovery: Implications for nurses
Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 1996As 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, 1988Handbook of Postanesthesia Nursing Edited by Mary Ellen Luczum 1987, 365 pp $3 7.50 ...
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Nursing Activities and Use of Time in the Postanesthesia Care Unit
Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 2005Specialty 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 +5 more
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Postanesthesia Nursing: A Comprehensive Guide.
AORN Journal, 1985Mary 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, 1996The 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, 1998The 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, 1997Little 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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Nursing Workload Associated with Adverse Events in the Postanesthesia Care UnitÂ
Anesthesiology, 1999Background The authors used a nursing task inventory system to assess nursing resources for patients with and without adverse postoperative events in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). Methods Over 3 months, 2,031 patients were observed, and each task/activity related to direct ...
M M, Cohen +5 more
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Family Visitation in the Postanesthesia Care Unit: Implementation of a Nurse Liaison Role
Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 2018The purpose of this article was to report on the nurse liaison role developed at a 400-bed community hospital in response to a previously published best practice project on the effect of family visitation in the PACU on family member anxiety. The evidence resulted in the development of the nurse liaison role, which changed nursing practice and involved
JoAnn, Deselms +2 more
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A salaried compensation model for postanesthesia nurses.
Journal of post anesthesia nursing, 1995Health care organizations involved in innovative and creative work redesign projects may find traditional pay structures inadequate to meet the needs of the changing environment. The idea of salaried compensation for registered nurses is not unprecedented. However, few salaried compensation models for nurses are described in the literature.
M E, Mushala, M A, Henderson
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