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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 eJournal: Hospital Pediatrics

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The MSK library now subscribes to the eJournal, Hospital Pediatrics. This journal is dedicated to pediatric hospital medicine and offers the tools to help provide quick, correct, and targeted medical interventions.

Significant topics include reducing length of stay and lowering readmission rates, optimizing patient safety and quality improvement, caring for children with medical complexity and chronic illness overseeing pain management practices, enhancing communication among units and multidisciplinary care teams, reducing unnecessary testing, and standardizing administration practices, training, coordination of care, and discharge planning.

New Database: CINAHL Plus with Full Text

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The library has upgraded the CINAHL platform to CINAHL Plus with Full Text. CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 1,443 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.  

CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides more than 370 nursing and allied health active full-text, non-open access journals indexed in the CINAHL® Database. In addition, CINAHL Plus with Full Text also includes an expanded version of the CINAHL® index including more records, additional journals, records dating back to 1937 and expanded content.