Content Posted in 2018
A failed perioperative nursing journal club: Reflections on mistakes made, and lessons learned, Jennifer Austin
An opportunity taken: Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital’s Perioperative Nurse Surgeon’s Assistant experience, Catherine Smith, Toni Hains, and Natasha Mannion
A personal perspective on separating families before surgery, Coralie Steward
A review of suspected intraoperative antiseptic burns: A quality improvement review, Monica Stankiewicz and Michele Wyland
A selected international appraisal of the role of the Non-Medical Surgical Assistant, Toni Hains, Haakan Strand, and Catherine Turner
‘Below ten thousand’: An effective behavioural noise reduction strategy?, Pete Smith and John Gibbs
Changing the standard of blood management in Australia: An overview, Alana Delaforce, Jed Duff, and Nicholas Ralph
Clinical handover of immediate post-operative patients: A literature review, Samantha Clarke, Karen G. Clark-Burg, and Elaine Pavlos
Compassion fatigue in the perioperative environment, Erin Wakefield
Editorial: Fundamentals of missed care – Implications for the perioperative environment, Nicholas Ralph
Establishing a new cardiac surgery service in an Australian university hospital: Pitfalls and lessons learned, Claudia Ciobanu, Sharon Latimer, and Brigid M. Gillespie
Exploring experienced nurses’ views, attitudes and expectations of graduate nurses in the operating theatre, Michelle Freeling, Steve Parker, and Katrina Breaden
Factors affecting surgical plume evacuation compliance, Stephanie Holmes
Factors that predict evidence use by Australian perioperative nurses, Jed Duff, Margaret Butler, Menna Davies, Robyn Williams, and Jannelle Carlile
Handover between anaesthetists and post-anaesthetic care unit nursing staff using ISBAR principles: A quality improvement study, Patricia Kitney, Raymond Tam, Paul Bennett, Dianne Buttigieg, David Bramley, and Wei Wang
Inadvertent postoperative hypothermia prevention: Passive versus active warming methods, Jessica Watson
Innovations in postgraduate work integrated learning within the perioperative nursing environment: A Western Australian experience, Kylie Russell and Tracey Coventry
Intestinal bacterial contamination of surgical instruments used for wound closure during intestinal surgery, Norihiro Kameda, Junko Nishio, Toshiko Ogawa, and Shinobu Okada
Is your graduate nurse suffering from transition shock?, Erin Wakefield
Knowledge and perceptions of the NMSA role in Australia: A perioperative staff survey, Toni Hains, Catherine Turner, and Haakan Strand
Locus of control profile in anaesthetic nurse and theatre nurse students: A recruiting guideline?, Vera Meeusen, Carla Mangnus, and Samantha Masters
Pressure injury prevention for surgery: Results from a prospective, observational study in a tertiary hospital, Isabel Wang, Rachel Walker, and Brigid M. Gillespie
Prevalence and risk factors of low back pain and disability index among operating room nurses, Anita Kiruba Jeyakumar and Florence Segaran
Private pain – identifying gaps in the management of chronic pain patients in private hospitals: A case study, Johanna Gale
Recommended practices for the management of surgical smoke and bio-aerosols for perioperative nurses in Thailand, Usavadee Asdornwised, Daranee Pipatkulchai, Suwat Damnin, Vitoon Chinswangwatanakul, Mongkol Boonsripitayanon, and Sununtha Tonklai
Reshaping perioperative nursing practice to get the job done: A constructivist grounded theory study, Sharon Bingham, Kenneth Walsh, and Karen Ford
Structured communication intervention to reduce anxiety of family members waiting for relatives undergoing surgical procedures, Kathryn Kynoch, Linda Crowe, Annie McArdle, Judy Munday, CJ Cabilan, and Sonia Hines
Surgical consent and the importance of a substitute decision-maker: A case study, Julia Gilbert and Brigid M. Gillespie
Surgical plume and its implications: A review of the risk and barriers to a safe work place, Eunice Tan and Kylie P. Russell
Task transfer: A survey of Australian surgeons on the role of the non-medical surgical assistant, Toni Hains, Catherine Turner, and Haakan Strand
Technology stress in perioperative nursing: An ongoing concern, Judith Smith and Debra Palesy
The collaborative development of a pre-operative checklist: An e-Delphi study, Katherine Murphy, Kim Walker, Jed Duff, and Robyn Williams
The value of guided operating theatre experience for undergraduate nurses, Paula Foran
‘When no means no’ – adolescent right to refuse an elective surgical procedure: A case study, Julia Gilbert and Brigid M. Gillespie