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An evidence-based general anaesthesia and prone position nursing checklist: Development and testing.
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- Protecting Patients From Prone Positioning-Related Injury.AORN journal · 2026Article
- Multidisciplinary expert evaluation of large language models on questions regarding bariatric surgery: a comparative analysis of ERNIE Bot 4.0, ChatGPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, and Gemini Pro.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Awake patients' experiences and coping needs during awake prone positioning in general wards: a patient-perspective qualitative study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- The clinical value of serum sST2 and cfDNA in guiding evidence-based nursing care for children with severe pneumonia complicated by myocardial damage.Journal of medical biochemistry · 2025Article
- Effects of free-position delivery combined with perineal massage on reducing sensitive indicators of care quality in high-risk pregnant women.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- An evidence-based general anaesthesia and prone position nursing checklist: Development and testing.Nursing open · 2023Article
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Abstract
aimProne positioning during general anaesthesia is one of the most difficult practices for the perioperative nurse. Patients in this position are vulnerable to many preventable complications. However, no studies have developed an evidence-based tool to improve nursing practice during general anaesthesia and prone positioning. This study aimed to develop and test a general anaesthesia and prone position nursing checklist for use by the circulating nurse.
designA prospective pre-post study was performed between October 2020 and March 2021.
methodsThe WHO checklist development model and evidence-based methods guided the checklist development process. We prospectively observed circulating nurses that attended to prone general anaesthesia during posterior lumbar spine surgery for 3 months before and after the introduction of the general anaesthesia and prone position nursing risk checklist. The main outcomes were successful delivery of essential prone positional nursing practices during each surgery and the nurse's opinion of the checklist's efficacy and utility.
resultsA general anaesthesia and prone position nursing checklist comprised of 4 pause points and 22 necessary nursing practices was developed. Seventy-two nurses participated in this study. Use of the checklist significantly increased the average performance of essential practices during each surgery from 72.72%-95.45%. Three measures had a compliance rate of 100%. The delivery rate of 14 measures was significantly improved, 91.7% of nurses considered the checklist easy to use, and 94.4% nurses would want the checklist to be used if they underwent a prone position and general anaesthesia operation.
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