“…Over the past 5 years, professional organizations, such as the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF), American Society for Pain Management Nursing (ASPMN), Society for Ambulatory Anesthesia (SAMBA), American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), and Emergency Nurses Association (ENA), have published recommendations and clinical practice guidelines to address opioid‐induced advancing sedation and respiratory depression (Horlocker, Burton, & Connis, ; Jarzyna et al., ; Joshi, Ankichetty, Gan, & Chung, ; Proehl et al., ; Weinger & Lee, ; Willens, Jungquist, Cohen, & Polomano, ). Despite growing national attention to opioid‐induced adverse events and guidelines to direct safe patient care, few changes in monitoring practices have occurred in hospital settings over the past 5 years (Jungquist, Willens, Dunwoody, Klingman, & Polomano, ). Causes for delays in implementing accepted safe and effective practices to prevent and minimize serious consequences of opioid therapy are complex, and are not fully understood.…”