Flu vaccination and COVID-19
Educate your patients about the importance of protection. Currently, development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a work in progress with no fixed date for…
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Using audit and feedback to improve compliance with evidence-based practices
Audits are routinely done in clinical practice to monitor compliance with various practices, such as infection prevention bundles or fall and pressure injury prevention
A viral collision
Reinforce vital practices to keep each other safe. The COVID-19 pandemic is on a collision course with the cold and flu season. This means…
Unemployment imperils health coverage
A fix is long overdue and needed now. So many bad things are happening, it’s hard to keep up with them all. In many…
Thyroid storm: A cause for grave concern
Your patient, Barbara Dulaney*, was admitted last night to the progressive care unit for right lower lobe pneumonia. She’s 51 years old, smokes two…
Pharmacologic management of type 2 diabetes in older adults
Advances in technology and therapeutics have led to more people with diabetes living into older age and others developing it later in life. According…
My brain is on overload… How about yours?
The antidote to the overworked brain. Lately, I find myself regularly and voluntarily distracted and not because I’m multitasking. I’m being “multi-informed” through a…
Facing the challenge of masked communication
“Can you hear me now?” was the byline of a popular TV ad in the early 2000s for a cell phone company, promising excellent…
A measure of last resort: Homemade respirator masks in a pandemic
Nurses design and test masks to advance innovation during a time of need. Editor’s note: Commercially manufactured single-use respirator masks are standard of care.…
Proper use of N95 respirators
Follow doffing, re-donning, extended use, and reuse best practices to reduce risks. (more…)
Sense of loss
In third grade I asked my Dad whether we would be thrown out of our home and into the street. My Dad, a chemistry,…
Flu vaccination and COVID-19
Educate your patients about the importance of protection. Currently, development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a work in progress with no fixed…
Using audit and feedback to improve compliance with evidence-based practices
Audits are routinely done in clinical practice to monitor compliance with various practices, such as infection prevention bundles or fall and pressure…
A viral collision
Reinforce vital practices to keep each other safe. The COVID-19 pandemic is on a collision course with the cold and flu season.…
Unemployment imperils health coverage
A fix is long overdue and needed now. So many bad things are happening, it’s hard to keep up with them all.…
Thyroid storm: A cause for grave concern
Your patient, Barbara Dulaney*, was admitted last night to the progressive care unit for right lower lobe pneumonia. She’s 51 years old,…
Pharmacologic management of type 2 diabetes in older adults
Advances in technology and therapeutics have led to more people with diabetes living into older age and others developing it later in…
My brain is on overload… How about yours?
The antidote to the overworked brain. Lately, I find myself regularly and voluntarily distracted and not because I’m multitasking. I’m being “multi-informed”…
Facing the challenge of masked communication
“Can you hear me now?” was the byline of a popular TV ad in the early 2000s for a cell phone company,…
A measure of last resort: Homemade respirator masks in a pandemic
Nurses design and test masks to advance innovation during a time of need. Editor’s note: Commercially manufactured single-use respirator masks are standard…
Proper use of N95 respirators
Follow doffing, re-donning, extended use, and reuse best practices to reduce risks. (more…)
Sense of loss
In third grade I asked my Dad whether we would be thrown out of our home and into the street. My Dad,…