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Dog bites can cause serious or even fatal injuries. Find out how to assess and intervene when your patient has been bitten.
Integrated and interoperable information systems mean patient data entered by one healthcare provider can be shared by provciders across the entire care continuum.
Find out how the “GRRRR for
great listening” model can improve your communication with colleagues to help you deliver high-quality care.
Avoid becoming a victim of violence on the job, at home and while traveling.
Learn how you can build support for healthier food options at your workplace.
The Gretta Foundation awards scholarship grants to honor the legacy of Dr. Margretta Madden Styles, an esteemed leader who encouraged nurses to embrace change.
Nuisance alarms, false alarms, and hard-to-identify alarms can imperil patient safety. The author describes ways to manage clinical alarms more efficiently.
With Bluetooth devices, system interfaces, and other high-tech advances, clinicians can make more accurate and timely treatment decisions.
The actions of a single person can be incalculable. That’s why it’s crucial that each of us instill “habits of virtue” in children.
Even if you don’t often work with pediatric patients, it’s worth your time to learn pediatric ear assessment techniques.
Malnutrition is surprisingly common in hospital patients-but detecting it can be easy when prealbumin levels are measured
Pulse oximetry helps med-surg nurses meet the challenge of caring for the greater numbers of acutely ill patients they’re seeing.
When a patient shows signs of systemic inflammatory response syndrome, her survival hinges on the nurse’s expert assessment skills and the clinical team’s swift interventions.
To aid ongoing safety surveillance for the H1N1 vaccine, be sure to report patients’ postvaccination events.
Continuous pulse oximetry monitoring immediately alerts clinicians to hypoxemia in unstable critically ill patients, so they can intervene before tissue hyposia sets in.
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