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Sep 2
1 min

Hello Perianesthesia Nurses! The mission of AzPANA is to serve as a perianesthesia nursing resource and to advance nursing practice...

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Arizona AzPANA

Aug 16
3 min

Clinical

Verbal Orders in the Peri-operative Setting

Jennifer Nopoulos MSNEd, RN, CPAN Verbal and telephone orders communicated from a provider to a RN have long been acceptable, necessary,...

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Ricky Senior

Jul 3
2 min

President Message

Welcome our New AzPANA President

Hello current and future AzPANA members, I am reaching out to introduce myself and thank you for the opportunity to serve you as your...

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Arizona AzPANA

May 8
2 min

Archive

An invitation to become a member of the AzPANA Board of Directors....

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Arizona AzPANA

Mar 15
2 min

Education

Now is the Time . . . Apply for an ASPAN Scholarship

Are you looking toward an academic nursing degree, thinking about becoming certified, attending ASPAN National Conference in Denver 2023,...

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Arizona AzPANA

Sep 18, 2021
2 min

The National Crisis in Nurse Staffing

Everyone talked about the upcoming nurse shortage well before COVID-19 came to our doors. The workforce shortages are creating...

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Arizona AzPANA

May 15, 2021
3 min

Recommendations for Care of the Surgical Patient who has Diabetes Mellitus Part 2

By Olivia Marsh MS There are two common pathways on how your patient will arrive to the preoperative area on the day of surgery. Patient...

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Recommendations for Care of the Surgical Patient who has Diabetes Mellitus -
Part 1

Arizona AzPANA

May 1, 2021
3 min

Recommendations for Care of the Surgical Patient who has Diabetes Mellitus - Part 1

By Olivia Marsh MSN RN With 10.5% of the US population or 34.2 million people of all ages reported as having diabetes by the National...

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Arizona AzPANA

Mar 6, 2021
3 min

Clinical

Breastfeeding and the Perianesthesia Patient

Jennifer Nopoulos, MSN-Ed, RN, CPAN March 6, 2021 The peri-operative patient that is currently breast feeding their infant requires...

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Arizona AzPANA

Jul 22, 2020
1 min

Scholarship Opportunities

7/25/2020 The AzPANA Mission is to serve as the PeriAnesthesia resource to advance nursing practice within the community through...

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Recognition and treatment of Local Anesthetic Toxicity

Arizona AzPANA

Jun 28, 2020
3 min

Recognition and treatment of Local Anesthetic Toxicity

Jennifer Nopoulos, MSNEd, RN, CPAN 6/28/2020 In the current peri-operative climate of utilizing multi-modal pain relief methods, local...

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Arizona AzPANA

Apr 26, 2020
2 min

Negative Pressure Pulmonary Edema in the PACU

Jennifer Nopoulos, MSNEd, RN, CPAN April 2020 Pulmonary edema from heart failure is a common pathology familiar to almost every RN, as...

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Arizona AzPANA

Dec 17, 2019
3 min

Dexmedetomidine (Precedex) has demonstrated less delirium than the commonly used benzodiazepines

Jennifer Nopoulos, MSNEd, RN, CPAN December 2019 In pursuit of anesthetic agents that have a high safely profile and could possibly...

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Arizona AzPANA

Dec 17, 2019
2 min

Postanesthesia care of patients being ruled out for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Jennifer Nopoulos, MSNEd, RN, CPAN Although extremely rare, a sudden and progressive decline in cognitive functioning not attributable...

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Arizona AzPANA

Dec 17, 2019
2 min

“Buprenorphine (Subutex) and the combination drug Suboxone in the Perianesthesia setting.”

Jennifer Nopoulos, MSNEd, RN, CPAN Buprenorphine (Subutex), and the combination drug Suboxone are prescribed by providers that have...

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Arizona AzPANA

Oct 1, 2019
2 min

Postanesthesia care of patients being ruled out for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Jennifer Nopoulos, MSNEd, RN, CPAN Although extremely rare, a sudden and progressive decline in cognitive functioning not attributable to...

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