title: Acute pain services: a new career direction for postanesthesia nurses.
abstract: Postoperative pain management continues to be a challenge to health care professionals. To address this, hospitals across the country are developing Acute Pain Services. It is fast becoming a specialty area and is being incorporated into the realm of practice of anesthesiologists. As postanesthesia nurses, we are in a unique position to enter this new field.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Love
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016528:Postanesthesia Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012380:Role