Tracheostomy care: An evidence-based guide
To promote positive outcomes in patients with trach tubes, nurses need to stay up-to-date on best practices and develop and maintain the necessary skills.
Wound/Ostomy Care
Teaching ostomy patients to regain their independence
Make sure your ostomy patients leave the hospital with the knowledge and skills they need.
Color awareness: A must for patient assessment
Color “blindness” may help minimize social and economic disparities, but can impede accurate patient assessment. The author explains why nurses should practice color awareness…
Get positive results with negative-pressure wound therapy
The author present tips to help you avoid pitfalls and ensure safe use of negative-pressure wound therapy, which applies subatmospheric pressure to accelerate the…
Saving a snakebite victim
While hiking, Paul Sawyer, age 31, is bitten twice on the right hand by a rattlesnake. When he arrives at the emergency department (ED),…
Is diagnosis of pressure ulcers within an RN’s scope of practice?
If you’re unsure whether pressure ulcer diagnosis is within an RN’s scope of practice, President Patton provides an answer based on ANA’s Scope and…
“Bundle” up to prevent pressure ulcers
Find out how to start a pressure ulcer prevention program on your unit or in your facility.
Caring for chronic wounds: A knowledge update
Assess wounds more precisely, identify wound-related problems earlier, and intervene more effectively.
Consider a career as a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse
In 2008, hospitals, extended-care facilities, and home-health agencies will face these regulatory and patient-care issues: (more…)
Central venous catheter dressings put to the test
A nursing team’s research findings lead to hospital-wide savings.
Teaching ostomy patients to regain their independence
Make sure your ostomy patients leave the hospital with the knowledge and skills they need.
Pressure mapping: A new path to pressure-ulcer prevention
Pressure mapping shows you high risk areas, so you can take steps to help prevent pressure ulcers.
Tracheostomy care: An evidence-based guide
To promote positive outcomes in patients with trach tubes, nurses need to stay up-to-date on best practices and develop and maintain the…
Teaching ostomy patients to regain their independence
Make sure your ostomy patients leave the hospital with the knowledge and skills they need.
Color awareness: A must for patient assessment
Color “blindness” may help minimize social and economic disparities, but can impede accurate patient assessment. The author explains why nurses should practice…
Get positive results with negative-pressure wound therapy
The author present tips to help you avoid pitfalls and ensure safe use of negative-pressure wound therapy, which applies subatmospheric pressure to…
Saving a snakebite victim
While hiking, Paul Sawyer, age 31, is bitten twice on the right hand by a rattlesnake. When he arrives at the emergency…
Is diagnosis of pressure ulcers within an RN’s scope of practice?
If you’re unsure whether pressure ulcer diagnosis is within an RN’s scope of practice, President Patton provides an answer based on ANA’s…
“Bundle” up to prevent pressure ulcers
Find out how to start a pressure ulcer prevention program on your unit or in your facility.
Caring for chronic wounds: A knowledge update
Assess wounds more precisely, identify wound-related problems earlier, and intervene more effectively.
Consider a career as a wound, ostomy, and continence nurse
In 2008, hospitals, extended-care facilities, and home-health agencies will face these regulatory and patient-care issues: (more…)
Central venous catheter dressings put to the test
A nursing team’s research findings lead to hospital-wide savings.
Teaching ostomy patients to regain their independence
Make sure your ostomy patients leave the hospital with the knowledge and skills they need.
Pressure mapping: A new path to pressure-ulcer prevention
Pressure mapping shows you high risk areas, so you can take steps to help prevent pressure ulcers.
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