After the ABCs, skin?
Jennifer Nopoulos MSNEd, RN, CPAN 3/12/2023 It is well known to hospital peri-operative nurses the importance of preventing health care...
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Arizona AzPANA
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Blasts from the Past
We were cleaning house a bit on our storage and found some old newsletters, photos, etc.. and thought it may be nice to share with our...
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Arizona AzPANA
- Feb 1
- 2 min
Region 1 Update
Ronda Dyer, MSN, BSPA, RN, CPAN, CAPA, CNE, Region 1 Director Including all states west of the North Dakota to Texas line, Region 1 is by...
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Arizona AzPANA
- Feb 1
- 2 min
2023 PANAW WEEK
Greetings AzPANA Members, The Arizona PeriAnesthesia Nurses Association would like to commend you and recognize the awesome job that you...
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Arizona AzPANA
- Dec 29, 2022
- 3 min
Administration of sub-cutaneous anticoagulants During the Peri-operative Period
Jennifer Nopoulos MSNEd, RN, CPAN Amongst the vital information upon which I focused during anesthesia provider handoff; anticoagulant...
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Arizona AzPANA
- Sep 2, 2022
- 1 min
Register Now for our Fall Conference
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
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, 2022
- 2 min
Celebrate Nurses Week 2022
Wishing all Nurses a Happy Nursing Week Katrina Bickerstaff - AzPANA President From assisting with life-threatening ER crises to...
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Arizona AzPANA
- Mar 22, 2022
- 1 min
AzSA Conference is Live in 2022!
On February 5th & 6th, The Arizona Society of Anesthesiologists held their conference live for the first time since COVID disrupted the...
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Arizona AzPANA
- Mar 18, 2022
- 1 min
An invitation to become a member of the AzPANA Board of Directors....
An invitation to become a member of the AzPANA Board of Directors....
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Arizona AzPANA
- Mar 15, 2022
- 2 min
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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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
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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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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