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New eBook: Drain’s PeriAnesthesia Nursing, A Critical Care Approach

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The 7th edition of Drain’s PeriAnesthesia Nursing, A Critical Care Approach is now available electronically via the MSK Library. This comprehensive clinical text has five distinct sections ― covering the PACU, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, nursing care, and special considerations.

Updated content in this edition includes the latest standards, policies and issues affecting perianesthesia nursing practice such as patient safety, infection control, managed care implications, pain management, bioterrorism, new sedation and pain guidelines, new information on older patients, implications of new surgical techniques, and more bariatric implications.

Helping Patients, One Call at a Time

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This May, National Nurses Month, Cure featured MSK’s Kimberly Rosencrance in a column by MSK’s Lead Patient Access Nurse, Ann Culkin.

In her role as a Patient Access Nurse Coordinator, Ms. Rosencrance speaks to patients and families over the phone to help navigate their care, financial concerns, and insurance questions. Her work leaves patients feeling calmer and reassured:

Kim conducts these emotionally loaded conversations with insight, expertise and listening skills to remove obstacles to the best oncology care. Kim reassures every caller that she is ‘really listening,’ often letting her silence do the heavy lifting as the patient shares their story.

We salute Ms. Rosencrance, Ms. Culkin, and all MSK nurses. Your work saves lives every day.

New Core Curriculum eBook Set from the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society

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The MSK Library has recently added 3 new titles from the Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society Core Curriculum series. They are the 2nd editions of Wound Management, Ostomy Management, and Continence Management.

These texts are a main source for expert guidance, training and wound, ostomy, and continence (WOC) certification exam preparation. This is essential content for those seeking WOC certification, including nursing students in WOC programs; nurses involved in wound care, ostomy management, or continence management; nurses in gastroenterology, urology, and surgical nursing; and graduate nursing students and nursing faculty.

Chapter features include: Objectives at the start of each chapter, Key Points that expand on important concepts, Tables that offer clinical guidelines and care strategies, Case Studies that optimize clinical decision-making, and End-of-Chapter Review Q&A’s — multiple choice questions followed by answers and rationales.