In the current practices as a recovery nurse, my main duty is pain control. Over the years of taking care of numerous patient to manage post anesthesia pain, a hypnosis was developed, that the use of PCA is an improved more time efficient and safe method to deliver opioid medication for pain. On the grounds of safety, there is a less chance of overdosing due to the preset amount and time intervals. The need for larger doses is decreased therefore leading to less respiratory depression. Faster distribution of medication due to the patient autonomy, which leads to high patient satisfaction scores. The use of PCA pumps is used on a daily basis because of the prior research advancing the theory supporting evidence based practice that
In the current practices as a recovery nurse, my main duty is pain control. Over the years of taking care of numerous patient to manage post anesthesia pain, a hypnosis was developed, that the use of PCA is an improved more time efficient and safe method to deliver opioid medication for pain. On the grounds of safety, there is a less chance of overdosing due to the preset amount and time intervals. The need for larger doses is decreased therefore leading to less respiratory depression. Faster distribution of medication due to the patient autonomy, which leads to high patient satisfaction scores. The use of PCA pumps is used on a daily basis because of the prior research advancing the theory supporting evidence based practice that