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By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Sep 13 2021
What's Hemoglobin A1C and Why Is It Important? According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) there were 34.2 million Americans (over 10% of the population) living with diabetes in 2018 and approximately 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year (ADA, 2020). For...
By: Elizabeth Wirth-Tomaszewski, DNP, RN, CRNP, CCRN, ACNP-BC, ACNPC Aug 20 2021
5 Questions (and Answers!) About the Delta Variant As if COVID-19 couldn’t be more complicated, now we have the delta variant. Many people have questions for nurses, and sometimes the answers aren’t as easy as a Google search. There is a lot of misinformation (and disinformation) out...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jul 22 2021
Understanding the Thyroid Negative Feedback Loop Regulation and release of the thyroid hormones occurs as a negative feedback loop. What does this mean? In simple terms, a negative feedback loop means that as something increases, the production of whatever is causing the increase slows down. So...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jul 13 2021
Can Nurses Experience Impostor Syndrome? I experienced the feeling but didn’t know it had a name. How was I qualified to be titrating life-sustaining medications and managing airways of critically ill patients? What right did I have to be educating family members on end-of-life...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jun 24 2021
HAT – A qSOFA Mnemonic We know that qSOFA can be used to identify patients at risk for clinical decline and sepsis-related organ dysfunction (Singer et al., 2016).  It encompasses three clinical variables: Respiratory rate > 22Altered mental status (Glasgow...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Jun 7 2021
Cytochrome Enzymes and Drug Interactions As nurses, we are accustomed to administering hundreds of different types of medications. We might even give patients five or six medications at a time and even more throughout the day, with the expectation that we know the dosage, mechanism, side...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Apr 27 2021
Autism Spectrum Disorder Acceptance My nephew was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at the age of eight, over a decade ago when ASD often went unrecognized. He experienced many challenges throughout his childhood; however, he was able to overcome them with the dedicated...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Apr 16 2021
Hitting Pause on the J&J COVID-19 Vaccine [Update April 26, 2021] As of April 25, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommend the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen (J&J/Janssen) COVID-19 vaccine...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Apr 9 2021
Long Haul to Recovery for Some COVID-19 Patients Vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 are well underway and we are beginning to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel. However, many people who contracted COVID-19 disease continue to suffer from lingering side effects as the recovery following...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 26 2021
Follow Your Gut and Get Screened Fifty. It’s just around the corner for me, as much as I hate to admit it, and it’s time to schedule my first colonoscopy. It’s certainly not something that anyone really looks forward to, but it is a critical cancer screening...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 11 2021
How Can You Build Vaccine Confidence and Dispel Myths? Given the role that vaccines have played as a cost-effective intervention to eradicate disease and improve health all over the world, it’s surprising that vaccines remain a controversial and polarizing topic. Vaccine hesitancy is defined by...
By: Myrna Buiser Schnur, MSN, RN Feb 10 2021
Mutations, Variants, and Strains! Oh My! While vaccinations against severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), are underway, news of virus mutations, or variants, is causing significant anxiety and stress. Should...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jan 23 2021
How to Calculate the Absolute Neutrophil Count The absolute neutrophil count (ANC) is the total number of neutrophils in the white blood cell (WBC) count. It’s typically part of the complete blood count (CBC) with differential. While some labs calculate the ANC for us, it’s...
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