Nancy Jo Vinson, RN, BA, CASC, of NJM Consulting recently joined the consulting team of Healthcare Consultants International, a subsidiary of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

At my pediatric facility, nurse practitioners, in collaboration with a physician, provide sedation services for radiologic tests. Currently we are not reimbursed for the sedation aspect of this ...

Conscious sedation helps reduce anxiety, discomfort, and pain during certain medical procedures. Doctors use medications and sometimes local anesthesia to induce relaxation. Conscious sedation is now ...

In nurse-administered propofol sedation (NAPS), a nurse working under the supervision of an endoscopist is delegated responsibility for administration of propofol to a patient and monitoring their ...

In most centers it is common practice to sedate patients undergoing endoscopic procedures to improve their level of comfort. Propofol is often the sedative of choice, owing to its rapid action and the ...

Should I Push the Propofol? We received the following question from a registered nurse (RN). The answer may be of interest to nurses working in many different healthcare settings: I've been discussing ...