Using music to maintain the correct rhythm during CPR.

Background: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a competency required of all health professionals, but they do not always meet chest compression standards.

Method: Nurses received a traditional chest compression demonstration or one with music. Their compression rates were measured and compared.

Hope floats: an orthopaedic tip sheet for float pool nurses.

A common method to address staffing shortages is the use of float nurses. This short-term resolution is not without its issues. When float nurses are unfamiliar with the assigned patient population or when there is little time for unit orientation, unnecessary anxiety and undue stress can affect the staff, healthcare providers, and, most importantly, the patients.

Assessing the safe resumption of antihypertensive medications following total hip or knee arthroplasty surgery.

Purpose: This exploratory, retrospective study aimed at examining whether patients experience orthostatic hypotension unnecessarily when antihypertensive medication(s) is simultaneously resumed following total joint replacement surgery.

Sample: The study sample consisted of 285 patients who underwent either total knee or total hip surgery and had a dual medical diagnosis of hypertension requiring treatment with more than 1 type of antihypertensive medication.

Method: Medical record reviews of all patients admitted to the orthopaedic unit from March 1, 2006, through June 30, 2006, at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center were analyzed to determine whether patients experienced any hypotensive event within 48 hr of their total joint replacement surgery following the resumption of their antihypertensive medications.