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
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
- 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
- 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 16
- 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 19, 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 2, 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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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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