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By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Feb 23 2012
One of those quirky nursing things Have you ever cared for one of those patients who is ‘borderline’ unstable? You know --- kind of stable, but not well enough for you to feel too optimistic that they won’t crash? In the Medical Intensive Care Unit where I worked,...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jan 30 2012
The impact of SBAR A while back, I wrote a blog post about using SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) as a method to help organize change-of-shift report. First implemented by the U.S. Navy to reduce miscommunications, use of this tool is becoming...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Dec 8 2011
Calculating the mean arterial pressure (MAP) MAP, or mean arterial pressure, is defined as the average pressure in a patient’s arteries during one cardiac cycle. It is considered a better indicator of perfusion to vital organs than systolic blood pressure (SBP). True MAP can only be...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Aug 23 2011
When a patient or family member is a nurse We’ve all been there...getting report when the oncoming shift finishes up and whispers to you that the patient’s family member is a nurse. How do you feel? What is your initial reaction? Do you change your approach to the patient? To...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jul 23 2011
The heat is on It has been incredibly hot here in the outskirts of Philadelphia as well as in the rest of the northeastern United States.  Last night, as my family and I walked out of an air-conditioned sporting event, I was amazed at the wall of heat and...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jun 7 2011
Memories of a medication error A recent study published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality looks at medication errors from the perspective of nurses.  While the researchers sought information about reporting of errors, importance of technology in reducing errors, and...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP May 27 2011
8 rights of medication administration Chances are that some of you may not have known that in addition to the well-known 5 right of medication administration, some experts have added 3 more to the list. When it comes to patient safety, it’s never a bad time to review some of the...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Mar 7 2011
Patient Safety This week is Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual education and awareness campaign led by the National Patient Safety Foundation. I did a quick search of articles from our nursing journals to bring you some of the great content we have related...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Feb 13 2011
And the winner is... Just last month, two articles from our journals and one entire journal issue received prestigious Eddie & Ozzie Awards. Please allow me to offer my congratulations here and share this content with you.In the B-to-B, healthcare/medical/nursing,...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jan 27 2011
You guessed it, another health care emergency... It always happens whenever I travel on business, there is almost always a health care emergency. I seem to be a magnet for them.I recently returned from a business trip to China and had the opportunity to see the Chinese Health Care System up...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Jan 11 2011
In case of emergency As nurses, it is in our nature to want to intervene and “make things better.” Add fundamental medical knowledge and clinical skills to that desire to help and we are the ideal candidates to promptly respond to any emergency situation...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Dec 20 2010
Family meetings I can remember a patient with an upper GI bleed, Minnesota tube in place, on maximum vent support and two pressors, who clearly was not doing well. I was checking yet another blood product with a nurse colleague, when a consulting clinician came...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP Nov 29 2010
Complexity Compression Have you ever heard the term complexity compression? I first learned of this term when reading Preserving a positive image of nursing in a complicated healthcare environment. This article caught my eye because although I had never heard the...
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