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Medical Cannabis: What Nurses Need to Know
Nurses can help patients make smart decisions by educating themselves.
Takeaways:
Nurses frequently treat patients who use or are considering using cannabis as a medicine.
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Central vascular access device complications:
The nurse’s role at each point of care
Takeaways:
Central vascular access devices (CVADs) can be essential to accomplishing patient therapeutic regimens.
Nurses must be...
Short peripheral and midline catheter complications
The nurse’s role at point of care
Takeaways:
Short peripheral and midline catheters can be essential to accomplishing patient therapeutic regimens.
Nurses must be competent...
Depression and chronic medical illness in adults
This dual diagnosis poses challenges for patients—and their nurses.
Takeaways:
Adults with chronic medical illness have a high prevalence of co-morbid depression.
Depression often goes...
Evidence-based epilepsy care
Assessment, treatment, and self-management
Takeaways:
Epilepsy is a complex disease that includes seizures that may or may not be active.
Recognizing comorbidities can improve health...
Oral anticoagulants: Pharmacologic management update
Stay-up-to-date to avoid complications and achieve the best treatment for patients.
Takeaways:
This article discusses the use of oral anticoagulants.
Indications, side effects and dosing...
Evidence-based practices for osteoarthritis management
Self-management education is the foundation of osteoarthritis care.
Takeaways:
· Osteoarthritis is a chronic disorder of the joints that is painful, prevalent, costly, and a leading...
Evidence-based update on chest tube management
Is your practice current?
Takeaways:
Chest thoracotomy tube (CTT) management can seem challenging, so let evidence-based practice guide you.
Familiarize yourself with the chest drainage...
Implementation: The linchpin of evidence-based practice changes
Take a strategic approach to translating research into practice.
Takeaways
Implementation is a major step in the evidence-based practice (EBP) process that’s often underappreciated and...
Breast cancer survivors: Assessment and management of long-term treatment effects
Survivor care continues long after treatment ends.
Takeaways:
Long-term effects of breast cancer treatment include fatigue, hot flashes and night sweats, sexual dysfunction, sleep disturbance, weight...
NP role in medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder
Combine medication and counseling with shared decision-making to treat addiction.
Takeaways:
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT), an evidence-based intervention for opioid use disorder and withdrawal symptom management, combines...
Reducing readmissions in stroke patients
Recognizing those at risk and exploring evidence-based strategies
Takeaways:
Stroke prevalence is projected to rise significantly by 2030 and increasing survivorship will lead to increased...
Reducing nasogastric tube misplacement through evidence-based practice
Is your practice up-to-date?
Takeaways:
Recent studies have shown that more than 88% of nurses are using non-evidence based methods for verification of nasogastric tube...