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The 7th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Perianesthesia Nursing and Medicine

Date ：15th Feb, 2025（Sun）
Venue：Yokohama City University Kanazawa Hakkei Campus, 22-2 Seto, Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama city, 236-0027
Theme : What are the education and abilities required for nursing during the perianesthesia period – to fulfill social responsibility
Chairman ：Takahisa Goto （Professor of Anaesthesiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama City University）
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About Perianesthesia Nurse：PAN

Clinical practice in anesthesia acutely and directly impacts the lives of patients. Perianesthesia nurses work to ensure and enhance the safety and quality of perianesthesia care by taking on tasks in tandem with physician anesthesiologists. To assist and coordinate care with the anesthesia team, perianesthesia nurses must have a profound understanding of the underlying pathophysiology, clinical reasoning, and clinical pharmacology that form the foundation of anesthesia care. Education in perianesthesia nursing therefore includes a broad range of training in the basic and clinical sciences, and is not limited to specific technical skills.

Board-certified physician anesthesiologists are responsible for overseeing perianesthesia nursing programs alongside nursing faculty. In addition, a perianesthesia nurse’s clinical duties are always performed under the direct orders and supervision of a responsible board-certified physician anesthesiologist. This is an important distinction from programs outside Japan that permit independent practice of anesthesia by nurses without physician oversight. St. Luke’s International University established Japan’s first graduate master’s program in anesthesiology for nurses in 2010. Currently, multiple graduate schools nationwide offer perianesthesia nursing programs modeled after this curriculum.

The first perianesthesia nurse entered clinical practice in 2012, with many more continuing to contribute today. Perianesthesia nurses have consistently worked alongside physician anesthesiologists, supporting a wide range of anesthesia tasks including preoperative consultations, intraoperative anesthesia, postoperative pain management, labor analgesia, and non-operating room anesthesia such as sedation.

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