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New eBook: 2023-2024 Perianesthesia Nursing Standards, Practice Recommendations and Interpretive Statements

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The newest edition of ASPAN’s Perianesthesia Nursing Standards, Practice Recommendations and Interpretive Statements is now available. These practice recommendations provide clinical guidance and support to perianesthesia registered nurses.

The 2023-2024 edition of the ASPAN Standards contains revised principles of safety and ethics in perianesthesia practice, as well as a new principle defining perianesthesia nursing practice. The new edition introduces an important standard for family-centered care. This edition also hosts a new section dedicated to the presentation of position statements created in collaboration with partnering organizations. The two newest position statements involve workplace civility and waste anesthesia gases outside of the operating rooms.

New database: JAMAevidence

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JAMAevidence is now available via the MSKCC library. This database helps users identify the best available evidence by providing guides to the systematic consideration of the validity, importance, and applicability of claims about the assessment of health problems and the outcomes of health care. This platform is designed to help clinicians make evidence-based healthcare decisions. It contains textbooks, tools, and forms useful to the critical appraisal process.

It includes 4 major components:

New Database: Trinka AI

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Trinka is now supported by the library, available via our catalog. This resource is an AI-powered writing assistant designed for academic and technical writing. Trinka corrects advanced grammar errors and contextual spelling mistakes by providing writing suggestions in real-time. It helps academicians write in a formal, concise, and engaging manner. In addition to correcting grammatical errors, Trinka allows you to paraphrase the text and improve consistency, enabling you to enhance the quality of your writing based on your requirements. Please note, our Trinka subscription does not come with a plagiarism checker option. You may use iThenticate for this purpose.

Users can register for an account with your MSKCC email (@mskcc.org). Once you have successfully registered with Trinka, you will receive an email with the subject “Activate Trinka Institutional Access” in order to fully activate your premium MSKCC access. Please reach out to resources@mskcc.org or consult the FAQs for access issues or more information.

Note: This subscription also includes Enago Read. This is an all-in-one AI-powered reading assistant and collaborative suite that helps writers organize their research and collaborate with team members to read, discuss, and share research papers and documents. Its features such as AI-powered summarization, key insights, and concept identification are especially useful in efficiently creating high-quality documents.