Perioperative Nursing - Methods
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Water conservation in surgery: a comparison of two surgical scrub techniques demonstrating the amount of water saved using a 'taps on/taps off' technique.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: Australia finds itself in the grip of its worst drought on record. The surgical profession has a responsibility to conserve water where possible. We tried to show how much water we saved through the simple measure of turning taps off ... Read more...

Pain assessment and management in patients after abdominal surgery from PACU to the postoperative unit.

30 Jul 2009 The aim of this exploratory study was to determine the effectiveness of pain relief for surgical patients (N = 52) in transition from the PACU to the postoperative unit. The study also explored whether there was an association between a verbal ... Read more...

The surgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: overview and experience at the University of Florida.

30 Jul 2009 Trigeminal neuralgia, also called tic douloureux, is a commonly misdiagnosed disorder characterized by intense facial pain. It is a chronic pain disorder that affects the fifth cranial nerve, usually in the fifth to seventh decade of life. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Perioperative Nursing - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Water conservation in surgery: a comparison of two surgical scrub techniques demonstrating the amount of water saved using a 'taps on/taps off' technique. 30 Jul 2009
• Patient family-centered care in the ambulatory surgery setting. 30 Jul 2009
• Pain assessment and management in patients after abdominal surgery from PACU to the postoperative unit. 30 Jul 2009
• The surgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: overview and experience at the University of Florida. 30 Jul 2009
• A people to people nursing experience in Russia. 29 Jun 2009
• Factors that affect intention to avoid strenuous arm activity after breast cancer surgery. 29 Jun 2009
• Looking into problems with transvaginal surgical mesh. 29 Jun 2009
• Reducing the impact of preoperative fasting on patients. 30 May 2009
• [Educational role of a nurse in medical care of patients with outer intestinal stoma] 29 Apr 2009
• [Nursing care in perioperative period in patients with intenstinal stomia exposure] 29 Apr 2009
• Pain assessment and management in surgical nursing: a literature review. 30 Jan 2009
• Reducing serious injury from falls in two veterans' hospital medical-surgical units. 30 Dec 2008
• Timing for delivering individualized patient education intervention to Coronary Artery Bypass Graft patients: An RCT. 30 Nov 2008
• Electrocardiographic monitoring in the medical-surgical setting: clinical implications, basis, lead configurations, and nursing implications. 29 Nov 2008
• The nurse's role in managing necrotizing fasciitis. 29 Nov 2008
• Published resources for improving patient care. 29 Nov 2008
• Improving prophylactic perioperative antibiotic utilization in a hospital system. 30 Oct 2008
• Hand-off communication: a requisite for perioperative patient safety. 30 Oct 2008
• Placental amniotic membrane: the pathway to ocular transplantation. 30 Oct 2008
• Effect of telephone follow-up on surgical orthopedic recovery. 30 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Perioperative Nursing'

Definition: Nursing care of the surgical patient before, during, and after surgery.

Descriptor UI: D013527

Alternative terms: Perioperative Nursing; Surgical Nursing; Nursing, Surgical; Nursing, Perioperative;

Related Mesh Headings: Operating Room Nursing; Postanesthesia Nursing;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; education;

Tree Number: H02.478.676.650; N02.421.533.710; N02.421.585.722.500;

Online Note: use PERIOPERATIVE NURSING to search SURGICAL NURSING 1968-95; use OPERATING ROOM NURSING to search PERIOPERATIVE NURSING 1988-95

History Note: 96; was SURGICAL NURSING 1968-95; PERIOPERATIVE NURSING was see OPERATING ROOM NURSING 1988-95

Technical Notes: a nurs SPEC; OPERATING ROOM NURSING is also available; DF: PERIOP NURS