Call to action: Blueprint for change in acute and critical care nursing.

Herein, we propose a blueprint for action to completely measure and recognize the care provided by acute and critical care nurses to be incorporated into policy that shapes and supports practice. We address the nature of nurses' work by identifying nine practice domains, hospital practice environment assumptions, and expected outcomes. Nurses' work, as a cross-system process, needs to be included in hospital-based core measures to fully reflect nurses' impact on patient care.

Comparing Forced-Air to Resistive-Polymer Warming for Perioperative Temperature Management: A Retrospective Study.

Purpose: Compare perioperative temperature management between forced-air warming (FAW) and resistive-polymer heating blankets (RHBs).

Design: A retrospective, quasi-experimental study.

Methods: Retrospective data analysis of nonspine orthopedic cases (N = 426) over a one-year period including FAW (n = 119) and RHBs (n = 307).

Reexamining Metoclopramide's Role in the Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: A Secondary Analysis.

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) continue to be among the most undesirable and distressing complications following general anesthesia, affecting 20% to 30% of all surgical patients and up to 70% of patients with multiple known risk factors. The purpose of this study was to reexamine the effectiveness of metoclopramide in the prevention of PONV when stratified by PONV risk scores. Secondary data from 2,116 adult ambulatory surgical patients were analyzed.