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By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Apr 9 2017
Transmission-based isolation precautions for common pathogens As a follow-up to our previous post on isolation guidelines, here is a list of transmission-based precautions recommended for common pathogens.    Megan Doble, MSN, RN, CRNP   References: Centers for Disease Control (CDC...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Apr 6 2017
Brushing up on isolation guidelines As the influenza season begins to subside, we can take a step back and reflect on best practices. Isolation guidelines in the health care setting continue to come up year after year as an area that brings some confusion to the clinical realm...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN 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...
By: Linda Laskowski-Jones, APRN, MS, ACNS-BC, CEN, FAWM, FAAN May 8 2016
Working Around Work-Arounds We’ve all experienced it over the years…the frustration of having some piece of equipment, computer program, patient care process, person, or policy get in the way of getting the job done. Sometimes it’s because the thing or...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN May 7 2016
Safety in the Healthcare Workplace: How Safe Do You Feel? Safety is something we think about constantly in our daily lives. We look both ways when we cross the street, we buckle our seatbelts when we get into the car, and we put on helmets when we participate in outdoor activities, such as biking...
By: Susan Mascioli, MS, BSN, RN, NEA-BC, CPHQ, LSSBB May 6 2016
Every Day in Every Way As health care professionals, there are few things more agonizing than listening to a grief stricken mother describe how her young daughter, bravely fighting cancer, died during a hospital stay as a result of delays and failed communication...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN May 4 2016
Creating a Culture of Safety: Blog Series for Nurses Week 2016 Happy National Nurses Week! As we approach the celebration this year, I’d like to take some time to share all that we have coming up for the week and into the rest of the month. There’s a lot of buzz online about what a Nurses Week...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Jan 12 2016
Is there a Cure for Gun Violence? There’s no doubt that gun control is a hotly debated topic today. Supporters of tight gun control argue that access to guns is too easy. Those on the opposition believe it is unconstitutional and that despite a rise in gun ownership, gun...
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