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.

As a long-time neonatal nurse who has worked in a very small community hospital, I can agree with the labor and delivery nurse's concerns about being asked to perform moderate sedation under the ...

DENVER, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Simulation Corporation (MSC) will launch a new, comprehensive Moderate Sedation Program at the country's premier nursing conference, the National Teaching ...

A study published in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety examined adverse events during moderate procedural sedation and compared patient and provider characteristics.

The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists offers a free, downloadable brochure for patients which provides answers to questions about conscious sedation. What is conscious sedation? When is ...

When a patient undergoes conscious sedation, they are given pain and relaxation medications via an intravenous (IV) line in the arm. Unlike general anesthesia, the patient remains awake throughout the ...

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 ...

Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States and colonoscopy is the most-used screening tool to detect it. In a recently published study, researchers from the ...

A registered nurse (RN) who works in the labor and delivery unit of a small hospital (approximately 550 deliveries per year) wrote to us with a question about RNs in her unit being required to learn ...