ASPAN certification

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Specializes in Clinic, formerly ED, ICU, PACU, ortho.

Does anybody know which book is the best study guide for the ASPAN (PACU) certification? Thanks.

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Welcome to the site. You might want to post this question in the PACU forum.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Will move this to the PACU forum

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Specializes in OR, PACU, Dialysis.

Don't know where the PACU Forum is... but I'm both CPAN and CAPA and I used The Core Curriculum for Perianesthesia Nursing Practice by Litwack. The ASPAN/ABPANC site has a full list of references. Also there are practice test on the website, they are really helpful.

Best of Luck

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Specializes in PACU, ED.

I just passed my CPAN test. I used the core curriculum (Quinn and Schick) a little but found it extremely dry. Most of my study was with the Certification Review for Perianesthesia Nursing (Putrycus and Ross, 2008). I also bought and studied the 2010 ASPAN standards. Good luck!

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Specializes in PACU, PICU, ICU, Peds, Education.

The best resource that I used was Perianesthesia Nursing: A Critical Care Approach, by Cecil B. Drain and Jan Odom-Forren. (I used an earlier edition by Drain alone, but its the same book)

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