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By: Dec 3 2017
Why Handwashing Makes Us Healthier – and Happier too! As nurses, we all know the importance of handwashing. We understand that germs can spread disease, and that hand hygiene can help defend against it. But still, 78 percent of all healthcare professionals tested in a recent study presented at a...
By: Lynne Centrella Rudderow, MSN, RN, CRNP, WHNP-BC, CCE Nov 6 2017
The Opioid Epidemic: Are Women Most Vulnerable? The opioid epidemic is a serious public health problem that impacts us professionally, as well as many of us personally. Asking about drug use is something we were taught while in nursing school. Assessing and managing pain has always been a big...
By: Sep 5 2017
Collaboration, communication, cooperation Nurse Wubbels…If you haven’t heard, seen, or read this story, here is a link to The Washington Post article, which includes the video. Briefly, nurse Alex Wubbels was arrested after refusing to allow a detective to obtain a blood...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Aug 30 2017
Using the art and science of nursing to fight the opioid crisis Every day we see it in the news and in our emergency departments, a person overdosing on prescription or street drugs. Every day, 90 Americans die due to an opioid overdose and in 2015, 33,000 lives were lost (Rudd, et al., 2016).  Age...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Aug 23 2017
Body Mass Index and Body Surface Area: What's the Difference? Body mass index (BMI) and body surface area (BSA) are two measures used frequently in health care, however, they are not well understood. While they are both indicators of body size, they provide very different information. What exactly do each of...
By: Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Apr 9 2017
Transmission-based isolation precautions for common pathogens Reviewed and updated by Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C: March 12, 2024 As a follow-up to our previous post on isolation guidelines, here is a list of transmission-based precautions recommended for common pathogens. Standard...
By: Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Apr 6 2017
Brushing up on isolation guidelines Reviewed and updated by Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C: March 12, 2024 As the influenza season begins to subside, we can take a step back and reflect on best practices. Isolation guidelines in the healthcare setting continue to come...
By: Mar 14 2017
Patient Safety: A personal memory and professional history It’s Patient Safety Awareness Week, and I am reminded of an experience I had as a nursing student. My first medication error has stuck with me all these years. Why? Because like all health care professionals, as nurses, our priority is to do...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Nov 10 2016
Trauma-informed care I stood in the doorway of room 630 and observed her staring out the window, consumed by thought. She was a 20-year old young woman who had been admitted to the medical unit due to gastrointestinal bleeding. I walked into the room, introduced...
By: Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, FAAN May 11 2016
Nurses ARE the Safety Net! This year’s Nurses Week theme focuses on safety – “Culture of Safety – It Starts with YOU.”  Immediately many of us think of patient safety, and that’s as it should be – patients come first. We know...
By: Karen Innocent, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, CMSRN May 10 2016
Violence Against Nurses Recently, there has been growing attention given to violence in the workplace. This new attention is extremely important because previously there was relative silence about violence against nurses and other health care workers, although it happens...
By: Joan M. Robinson, MSN, RN May 10 2016
Medication Safety: Go beyond the basics For any nurse working in a direct care setting, preparing medications and administering them to patients is part of the daily routine. Mistakes can happen at any point in the process. Administration errors are one of the most serious and most...
By: Collette Bishop Hendler, RN, MS, CIC May 9 2016
Who you gonna call? ...Bugbusters! Don’t you wish it was that easy? You could just pick up the phone, hire Bugbusters, and they’d come out and use their Sci-fi equipment to rid your facility of all those nasty “bugs” or organisms that cause health care...
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