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Perioperative Nurses provide for the surgical patient's needs, by assessing, planning, and implementing nursing care patient receives preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively. Nursing activities performed by the perioperative nurse include patient assessment, creating and maintaining a sterile and safe environment, preoperative and postoperative teaching, monitoring physiologic and psychological status, integration and coordination of care across settings and among disciplines, patient advocacy, and efficient provision of resources.

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Nurse Anesthetists Address Propofol Abuse

Michael Jackson’s suspected death from propofol (Diprivan) on June 25 came just three days after the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists called on hospitals to more closely control the sedative/anesthetic because of an increase of abuse and diversion among healthcare professionals. Read more »

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Nurses: Kidney Exchange Registries Increase Compatability, Hope

A tool called paired kidney exchange registries allows transplant centers to track pairs of incompatible donors and recipients and facilitate matches with others in a database. Read more »

N.H. Healthcare Facilities Adopt OR Safety Checklist

New Hampshire hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers have voluntarily adopted a safety checklist for surgeries and other invasive procedures, according to the New Hampshire Hospital Association’s Foundation for Healthy Communities. The protocol is based on a checklist developed by the World Health Organization. The checklist identifies three phases of a procedure for which medical team members confirm appropriate tasks have been completed. For example, it may include processes to verify the patient’s identity, procedure and correct surgical site; processes to verify if the patients have any known allergies; a time-out before surgical incision; and verbal confirmation after the procedure that instrument, sponge, and needle counts are correct. Read more »

First Surgery Performed at Wellington’s Level III NICU

The first surgery at Wellington (Fla.) Regional Medical Center’s Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was completed Aug. 10, and the patient, 3-month-old Cameron John Altman, is one step closer to heading home with his mother, according to a news release. Read more »

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