Perianesthesia Nursing Care

Daphne Stannard has over 25 years of clinical experience in critical care and perianesthesia nursing. She is currently the Associate Chief Nurse Researcher and Perianesthesia Clinical Nurse Specialist at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center.As the Associate Chief Nurse Researcher, she is responsible for coordinating and fostering nursing research within the UCSF Medical Center.Wearing her Perianesthesia CNS hat, Daphne directly covers all perioperative recovery areas and indirectly covers all other recovery areas within the medical center.Her research program focuses on clinical practice issues, including role development within nursing, and her research expertise is in qualitative research methodologies. Dina A. Krenzischek has over 30 years of clinical and management experiences in perianesthesia settings, critical care, emergency room, and operating room practices. She is currently the Adult Perianesthesia Nurse Manager at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. As a Nurse Manager, she is responsible in managing the clinical practice, performance improvement/safety, operation, service excellence, and foster/promote the development of staff of the main adult Same Day Prep and Post Anesthesia Care Units. Her lectures and research activities focus on clinical, safety, leadership, and management practices.