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2008

Eastern Michigan University

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Knowledge And Utilization Of The Perioperative Nursing Data Set By Perioperative Staff Nurses In Southeastern Michigan, Jill Ortmann Jan 2008

Knowledge And Utilization Of The Perioperative Nursing Data Set By Perioperative Staff Nurses In Southeastern Michigan, Jill Ortmann

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this descriptive/correlational study was to describe what perioperative nurses practicing in southeastern Michigan know about the Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS), how they are utilizing the PNDS, and their opinion of the PNDS, and also to examine the relationship between these variables and demographic data. Four research questions were addressed by the use of a questionnaire.

The results of this study were drawn from the return of 151 questionnaires out of a possible 319 questionnaires submitted to practicing perioperative registered nurses (RNs) in southeastern Michigan (47 percent return rate). These results showed that overall, perioperative RNs did …