Opiods Journal of Nursing

Compassion in Care: Rethinking Pain Management for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder

Compassion in Care: Rethinking Pain Management for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder

Tags: opiods pain management pain relief

Op-Ed discussing post-operative pain management options for patients with Opioid Use Disorder. Every patient deserves adequate pain control, no matter their personal or medical history. Ensuring adequate pain control for all patients is a fundamental aspect of compassionate, effective healthcare, but it is especially crucial for patients with OUD. A carefully designed, multimodal protocol that reduces opioid use but still provides relief allows patients with OUD to recover safely and with dignity. This, in turn, lowers their risk of dependency complications while supporting both their physical and psychological healing.

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Capnography: A Missed Vital Sign in Post Anesthesia Care Units

Capnography: A Missed Vital Sign in Post Anesthesia Care Units

Tags: anesthesia nurse opiods PACU

Capnography provides essential data on how well a patient is ventilating regardless of what the oxygen saturation monitor is reading. This is an under-utilized tool that can detect adverse respiratory events such as hypoventilation leading to hypoxia. Capnography is a non-invasive nasal cannula that sits just below the nose and captures end-tidal carbon dioxide. Nurses should make it a standard of practice to implement capnography for all patients who arrive into the PACU.

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Quality Improvement in Pain Management

Quality Improvement in Pain Management

Tags: healthcare system opiods pain pain management pain relief quality of nursing

Discusses quality improvement approaches in pain management in the midst of the national opioid epidemic.

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