{"title":"Test-taking techniques.","authors":"L Litwack","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article discusses test-taking techniques that may be helpful to nurses scheduled to take the postanesthesia nurse certification examination or ambulatory perianesthesia nurse certification examination in November 1995.</p>","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 5","pages":"277-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19610334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The new certified ambulatory postanesthesia nurses: who are they?","authors":"S J Fetzer, C Mullen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 4","pages":"211-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18654199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Journey to the new order: a leap of faith.","authors":"P Muller-Smith","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Efforts to re-engineer or restructure often have focused on reducing the numbers of personnel to achieve a cost savings. These efforts have met with limited success. True success requires that change be directed at people, the way people are managed, and the way people do their work. Old management theories are not working well in the new environment, and new theories are only in the developmental phase. During this journey from the old to the new, managers will be managing without the benefit of clear management models.</p>","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 4","pages":"225-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18654202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A view from the other side of the bed.","authors":"A Allen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some of the changes in the care of hospital inpatients are discussed. How are nurses responding to staff downsizing, reorganization, and other cost-cutting measures? The author recounts her personal quest for answers in her roles as a concerned nurse, a nursing instructor, and a hospital patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 4","pages":"228-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18654158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the inside looking out.","authors":"S A Goodwin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 4","pages":"195-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18654196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An integrative review of postanesthesia care unit phase I patient outcome research: 1982 to 1993.","authors":"J Vogelsang, S J Fetzer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Specialty nursing practice tends to define itself by a set of competencies believed to be essential by the practitioner. A specialty practice rarely is the result of patient outcome research. Although nurses have been caring for postoperative patients since the early 1900s, a review of published PACU phase I patient outcome nursing research has not been reported. As part of a larger study, an integrative review of phase I postanesthesia research was conducted to investigate compliance with the scientific method and to examine whether reported research findings link the nursing process with patient outcome. Data were collected from identified PACU phase I research studies published between 1982 and 1993. The table of contents from 16 nursing journals were examined to identify published studies. The sample for the integrative review consisted of 43 studies meeting inclusion criteria. Data from the 43 studies were collected independently by two researchers on Post Anesthesia Research Literature Instrument coding sheets developed for the review. Findings indicated that the scientific method was used with varied levels of sophistication. The linkage of nursing process with patient outcome did not appear explicit in the studies reviewed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 4","pages":"197-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18654197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding neurological assessment.","authors":"D W Shpritz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Components of the rapid neurological assessment, or neuro check, are presented. Understanding the relationship of a specific assessment parameter, its corresponding anatomical correlate, and the patient response assists the nurse in clinical decision making and priority setting.</p>","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 4","pages":"216-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18654200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reading research critically: results using correlation coefficients.","authors":"M Giuffre","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Statistical tests you have heard of, designed primarily to characterize relationships between and among variables within a data set, are correlations and regressions. Tests designed to analyze the difference among groups on a particular variable are the chi-squared test, the Student's t Test, and the analysis of variance. This article will explain the interpretation of simple relationships in research data, specifically correlations.</p>","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 4","pages":"220-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18654201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A salaried compensation model for postanesthesia nurses.","authors":"M E Mushala, M A Henderson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Health 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. This article presents a model that we believe will be of particular interest to nurses in PACUs, because its design allows for adequate call coverage plus flexibility in scheduling. In addition, this compensation model eliminates incidental overtime, thus allowing for a more predictable salary budget.</p>","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 4","pages":"208-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18654198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sharpen the saw.","authors":"J Bauer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of post anesthesia nursing","volume":"10 4","pages":"245-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18654159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}