Surgical considerations in the elderly.

The number of older adults in America is rising every year. This increase in the elderly population will have a direct impact on health care delivery and perianesthesia nursing. Consequently, nurses need to increase their knowledge regarding the geriatric patient undergoing surgery.

Cross-cultural comparison of perianesthesia nursing: challenges encountered in the PACU.

Nurses often consider caring for the pediatric patient in the PACU stressful. This stress may be compounded when providing this care in a foreign country. This article compares and contrasts the challenges experienced by one nurse when working in both Russia and China as a PACU nurse for the volunteer group, Operation Smile.