Educating Patients About Opioid Disposal: A Key Role for Perianesthesia Nurses.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients often have excess prescribed opioids after laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and they do not understand proper disposal of unused medications. Education about proper disposal of unused opioids medications is a key role of perianesthesia.
PMID: 30894293 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Merrill KC, Haslam VC, Luthy KEB, Nuttall C Tags: J Perianesth Nurs Source Type: research
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