Abstract

The nursing staff council at an urban magnet hospital began questioning why postoperative vital signs were done at the current frequency. This session will present the evidence-based practice project that was completed to examine the frequency and perceptions of postoperative vital signs.

Author Details

Linda Wilson, PhD, RN, CPAN, CAPA, BC, CNE, CNEcl, CHSE-A, FASPAN, ANEF, FAAN, College of Nursing and Health Professions, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Helen S. Kane, MSN, MBA, RN, CCRN, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Methodist Division, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Sigma Membership

Nu Eta

Type

Presentation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

N/A

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

Vital Signs, Perceptions, Postoperative

Conference Name

30th International Nursing Research Congress

Conference Host

Sigma Theta Tau International

Conference Location

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Conference Year

2019

Rights Holder

All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.

All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.

All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Additional Files

download (94 kB)

Share

COinS
 

Examining the perceptions of postoperative vital signs practices

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

The nursing staff council at an urban magnet hospital began questioning why postoperative vital signs were done at the current frequency. This session will present the evidence-based practice project that was completed to examine the frequency and perceptions of postoperative vital signs.