Welcome, everybody, to my blog. I'm trying to start a local chapter of the PeriAnesthesia Nurses Association of California (PANAC) in the Inland Empire to provide more opportunities for education and networking for all perianesthesia nurses. I'm really looking forward to working together with all of you as we develop our new chapter. Please share your ideas, suggestions, recommendations, and thoughts on this blog. Our combined efforts will make our new chapter both educational and fun!
Angie Weathersby, MBA, RN
Great poll question, but I do believe I skewed your data by accidentally voting twice. At any rate, my sister had gastric bypass surgery many years ago (before I started nursing school) and I definitely feel as though we were not well educated about the procedure and possible post-op complications. I'd like to think that with time the patient education surrounding this topic has improved; either way I think it's an important issue for healthcare workers and patients to think about.
ReplyDeleteI love the links and PANAC Chapter information. Good luck with the formation of a local chapter, I would think there is enough interest in the Inland Empire. Good luck! I wasn't able to open your blog discussion area...
ReplyDeleteAngie, interesting the background of your blog is the color of the old scrubs we used to wear when ARMC was called a County hospital. Was that intentional? I had an acquaintance about 25 years ago that died from the effects of malignant hyperthermia. It was a shock; young, ready to be married, and then was in a vegetative state before dying.
ReplyDeleteI will try once again to open your blog discussion area. It is probably my inexperience.
The discussion area was working, but then I touched it. Now I'm trying to get it working again. Sigh.
DeleteThanks for your feedback.
ReplyDeleteMy design plan for the blog is to provide clear, interestng information on the process of starting this local PANAC chapter in the Inland Empire. I picked the colors because green represents life, restfulness, well-being, safety, healing, and growth. Green is also my favorite color. Though the blog is open to the public, my audience consists primarily of my classmates, perianesthesia nurses in the Inland Empire, and my co-workers at ARMC. I hope to excite them and encourage to return to my blog by providing current information on PANAC, ASPAN, and other perianesthesia events; space for online discussions of topics relevant to perianesthesia nurses; and ways for them to contact me with their ideas for meeting topics, speakers, locations, and feedback. These are the types of features that would bring me back to a blog. Though readers may be interested in what I am learning, and so much of it really is facinating, I am not sure they would care to read about my technology frustrations. I believe they would rather read about how these technologies might be used in nursing.
Your thoughts?