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Dear
Colleague,
How knowledgeable are you about I.V. therapy?
Are you able to answer the following questions?
1. What is the difference between infiltration
and extravasation?
2. What is a vesicant medication? Can you name one? What's
its antidote?
3. Name 2 nursing interventions for managing an infiltration
or extravasation.
4. What factors contribute to thrombus development in and
around catheters?
5. How can you prevent precipitate occlusion of an I.V. catheter?
6. What is pinch-off syndrome?
Discover these answers
and more by reading the articles in More Resources. Also,
don't miss our next issue for National
Nurses Week!
Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP
Clinical Editor
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Brush up on your knowledge and skills as well as the latest evidence-based practices for prevention and management of pneumonia by exploring our latest collection, Focus On: Pneumonia. Browse our other collections too - RWJF Future of Nursing Initiative, asthma, heart failure, and more.
Register for the free webcast: Improving Nursing Practice with Information and Technology. Join Anne Dabrow Woods, Chief Nurse of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Ovid for a webcast that will shed light on how and where nurses are using information in practice today and what uses are on the horizon for tomorrow.
All of the articles in our Patient Education collection are now available to you FREE! Organized by body system, you’re sure to find the tools you need!
Get involved in our blog, NursingCenter's In the Round! We’d love to hear from you! Recent posts include:
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Is
it time for a refresher of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act? Don't miss Revisiting
HIPAAto brush up on your understanding of the requirements
and to dispel 3 common myths.
(1.6
contact hours) Nursing
Management
What is the risk of pressure injury
to patients undergoing procedures in diagnostic and interventional ancillary
units? Read this literature review, Pressure
Ulcer Risk in Ancillary Services Patients, to find out
what factors place patients at most risk.
(2.5 contact hours) Journal
of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing
Discover strategies to manage and
share health information by reading The
Use of Electronic Health Information Systems in Home Care: Facilitators
and Barriers.
(2.6 contact hours) Home Healthcare
Nurse
Review our Recommended
CE list on sepsis alert, propofol, multidrug-resistant TB...
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Nurses
are called to action when disaster strikes. Understand your role and learn
how to prepare yourself before a disaster occurs by examining Mass
Casualty Events: Are You Prepared?
Nursing2010
Nurses often care selflessly and this
can contribute to the development of compassion fatigue. Learn strategies
to create healthier work environments by reading Compassion
Fatigue: Nothing Left To Give.
Nursing Management
Self-care is an important part of
the management of chronic illness. As a nurse, you have the knowledge
and skills to teach diabetic patients how to best care for themselves.
Read more in Diabetes
Mellitus and the Importance of Self-care
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy!
Browse our Recommended
Readings about Lessons to learn from the H1N1 pandemic, managing chronic pain in acute care,
and more.
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opportunity to get acquainted with the kind of coverage and clinical
information it has to offer. Get to know our journals. The
current Featured Journal is...
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- The FDA has approved TachoSil, a ready-to-use biodegradable fibrin sealant patch for use in cardiovascular surgery to prevent mild and moderate bleeding from small blood vessels when standard surgical techniques are ineffective or impractical.
- The FDA has approved a new formulation of OxyContin (oxycodone) designed to discourage medication misuse and abuse. The reformulated OxyContin is intended to prevent the product from being cut, broken, chewed, crushed, or dissolved to release more medication.
See
more drug news.
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RAC Audit Series: Case Management & Documentation Essentials
Steps to help you mitigate the threats to your hospital
Which hospitals are at the greatest risk for exposure under the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program? It's frequently the organizations that lack effective case management oversight and/or high-quality supporting documentation. From this series of webcast seminars, you'll gain a clearer understanding of the RAC program and what it means for your hospital, along with recommendations for compliant practices in three key areas: access management; discharge planning and care coordination; and clinical documentation improvement. Click here, or call MedLearn at 800-252-1578.
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Need Help with Evidence-Based Practice?
On May 5 at 1 PM EDT, join the "Chat with the Authors" call. It's your chance to get personal consultation from the experts! Dial-in early! U.S. and Canada, dial 1-800-947-5134 (International, dial 001-574-941-6964). When prompted, enter code 121028#.
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How do nurses access and use information in practice today? In educational settings? As part of their professional development?
Join Anne Woods, Chief Nurse of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Ovid, for a free webcast on Improving Nursing Practice with Information and Technology on April 29th from 12pm to 1pm Eastern that will summarize the main takeaways from a new, in-depth white paper about how nurses in North American access and use information today and how that may change in the future. Webcast registrants will receive the full white paper, one week before it is available to the general public.
Anne's special guest will be Linda Laskowski-Jones, MS, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CEN, the Vice President of Emergency, Trauma and Aeromedical Services at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Delaware, who will talk about the real-world trends at a hospital that is both highly-committed to technology and has achieved magnet status in nursing.
To register, click here.
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