title: Reducing fast times in paediatric day surgery.
abstract: How easily can a nurse change established practice? By using audit to highlight the problem of prolonged fast times before elective day-case surgery for children and drawing on previous research performed on minimum fast times, this paper shows how nurse-led research can change established practice. The paper also shows that not all research is labour intensive, slow to show results and of only educative interest.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bates
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000451:nursing*; D002648:Child; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D005215:Fasting; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education; D010371:Pediatric Nursing