Puzzling over family presence: Word search at the bedside
The patient’s family makes an initial judgment about a nurse within 60 seconds—so your first words are crucial. Find out how to make every…
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Article provides guidance for nurses working with patients with vision loss
“Focusing your care: Working with clients with vision loss” in the Canadian Nurse provide informative guidance for nurses. Read the article.
Protecting children by preventing falls
Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury to children outside hospitals and a considerable concern during hospitalization
Improving patient education with Health Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Learn how this tool helped an ICU analyze and correct flaws in its patient-education process
SWAT nursing: A unique specialty
What does SWAT stand for? So Where Are They? Smart, Witty, and Talented? Smiling, Willing, Able, Technical? (more…)
From our readers: Overtime is only fun in baseball: A somber look at mandatory overtime and nursing care
The author reviews issues surrounding mandatory overtime.
Caring for patients in alcohol withdrawal
Be sure you’re prepared to care for patients with this condition
Restraints, patient rights, and the confused patient
Author Leah Curtin analyzes the ethics of a case of confusion and restraints.
Care of clinical trial participants: What nurses need to know
The third in a series of articles on clinical trials from nurses at the National Cancer Institute.
Jump into action against aspiration pneumonia
The author covers how to recognize and treat this serious complication.
When closeness breeds cruelty: Helping victims of intimate partner violence
We may not realize it, but most nurses have frequent contact with domestic abuse victims. Shame and fear of reprisal keep many victims from…
FDA, NIOSH, and OSHA ‘strongly encourage’ use of blunt-tip suture needles
On May 30, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and Occupational Safety and Health…
Puzzling over family presence: Word search at the bedside
The patient’s family makes an initial judgment about a nurse within 60 seconds—so your first words are crucial. Find out how to…
Article provides guidance for nurses working with patients with vision loss
“Focusing your care: Working with clients with vision loss” in the Canadian Nurse provide informative guidance for nurses. Read the article.
Protecting children by preventing falls
Falls are the leading cause of unintentional injury to children outside hospitals and a considerable concern during hospitalization
Improving patient education with Health Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Learn how this tool helped an ICU analyze and correct flaws in its patient-education process
SWAT nursing: A unique specialty
What does SWAT stand for? So Where Are They? Smart, Witty, and Talented? Smiling, Willing, Able, Technical? (more…)
From our readers: Overtime is only fun in baseball: A somber look at mandatory overtime and nursing care
The author reviews issues surrounding mandatory overtime.
Caring for patients in alcohol withdrawal
Be sure you’re prepared to care for patients with this condition
Restraints, patient rights, and the confused patient
Author Leah Curtin analyzes the ethics of a case of confusion and restraints.
Care of clinical trial participants: What nurses need to know
The third in a series of articles on clinical trials from nurses at the National Cancer Institute.
Jump into action against aspiration pneumonia
The author covers how to recognize and treat this serious complication.
When closeness breeds cruelty: Helping victims of intimate partner violence
We may not realize it, but most nurses have frequent contact with domestic abuse victims. Shame and fear of reprisal keep many…
FDA, NIOSH, and OSHA ‘strongly encourage’ use of blunt-tip suture needles
On May 30, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and Occupational Safety…
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