Perioperative Nursing Data Set Pnds An Issue Of Perioperative Nursing Clinics

The Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS) is a standardized nursing vocabulary that addresses the perioperative patient experience from pre-admission until discharge. As a nursing language, it is parsimonious, validated, reliable, and useful for clinical practice. This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics includes articles on such topics as applying the PNDS across age and population-specific groups; using the PNDS in performance improvement; realistic use of the PNDS in academic nursing; and a perioperative visit to Brazil.

This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Joy Don Baker, PhD, RN-BC, CNE, CNOR, NEA-BC, will focus on Informatics with topics including: Distance education; computer science and cognitive science; role of the perioperative nurse as informaticist; cyber diving: literature search; website evaluation; bibliographic software; relational database programs; virtual learning environments; digital divide; and social networking legality.

This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Terri Goodman, PhD, RN, CNOR, will focus on Nurse Advocacy, with article topics including: the Nurse advocate; Patient right to safety; Advocacy through public policy; Advocating for patient families; Advocating for Laryngectomy Patients; Advocating for cancer patients; and Advocating for the patient in industry.

Part one of this edition introduces this perioperative nursing vocabulary, describes the origins of the language and conceptual model, and offers a user's guide to implementation including care plans, educational plans, competencies, critical pathways, and performance appraisals. These contributions illustrate how others have incorporated the PNDS in various clinical settings. Part two lists the actual data elements, organized by outcome. Other additions include the concept of interim outcomes statements, a listing actual outcome indicators, clarification of intervention statements, linkages t

This issue of Perioperative Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Mickey L. Parsons, PhD, MHA, RN, FAAN, and Nancy Girard, PhD, RN, FAAN, will focus on National Quality and Payment Policy: Strategies for Nursing Leadership and Practice, with article topics including: Value Based Purchasing; Leadership and Practice Framework for Success in the Era of Transparency; Evaluating an Innovative Organizational Strategy; Nursing Units as Learning Practice Communities; Healthcare Quality: Implementation of the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Role; Teaching Nurses to Utilize Dashboards; Understanding the Patient’s Experience; Healthcare Quality and Ethics; and PACU Nurses and Patient Safety Climate.

When you understand the whys of each step the nursing process, it’s easier easy to understand how to apply them in the real world in which you will practice. Take an interactive, step-by-step approach to developing the diagnostic reasoning and problem-solving skills you need to think like a nurse with the resources you’ll find in this unique workbook style text.