Suggestions for articles

Patient care studies

Write about a patient's journey through anaesthesia to theatre to the post-anaesthetic unit. Clinical focus incorporating information about the patient, their medical history, surgery performed, anaesthesia, progress and complications.

Day in the life of…

To gain a perspective of the lived experience of practitioners in anaesthesia and post-anaesthetic care. This does not need to be a highly academic article and references are not necessary. Promotion and understanding of the different roles within the perianaesthetic environment, eg: Post-anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU) nurse/PACU sister/Anaesthetic nurse/Operating department practitioner (ODP)/Anaesthetic team leader/Health care assistant (HCA) working in PACU/Assistant practitioners/Anaesthetist/Practice educators/Lecturers in perioperative care.

Meet the Team

Introduce your unit. Write about what makes your unit special: surgical specialities; staffing; environment; training opportunities. Include pictures of your unit.

Reflection

Reflect on any incident from either anaesthetic or post-anaesthetic practice using a known reflective tool, eg Gibbs [1988] or Johns [1994]. Incidents can be of a positive or negative experience.

Quality Framework

Write about an audit undertaken in your department. Why was the audit undertaken? How was it set up? What were the results? How was practice changed in response to the audit findings?

Examples of local standards, protocols, guidelines, eg discharge criteria. Why were these drawn up? How useful are they in practice? What can others learn from these?

Research

Write about a research project you have undertaken. This could be a quantitative, qualitative or mixed method design.