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By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Dec 18 2011
Inspiring blog posts from 2011 I read a lot about nursing - mostly journal articles, but this year I’ve spent quite a lot of time reading nursing blogs and I love it! Some tell stories of certain patient experiences, some bloggers have written more about the changes our...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Dec 9 2011
How to Calculate Mean Arterial Pressure (MAP) Reviewed and updated by Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN: February 6, 2024 Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is defined as the average pressure in a patient’s arteries during one cardiac cycle. It is considered a better indicator of...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Dec 7 2011
A call for courtesy, please I had originally planned a different topic for this week’s blog post, but I would be remiss if I didn’t use this time and space to share my experience at my primary care practitioner’s office today. I went in for my flu shot, not...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Nov 29 2011
What do you do when... I’ve been reading a lot of articles about ethics lately as I prepare to update our Focus On: Nursing Ethics collection. Of course, so many dilemmas that I’ve faced in my practice are coming to mind and I’ve been giving a lot of...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Nov 23 2011
A Special Thank You When I started to think about a special post to write for Thanksgiving, I tried to remember a time when I really grew as a nurse. There was no question in my mind about a certain patient that was instrumental in that growth. The crazy thing was I...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Nov 20 2011
Nurse to lead CMS On December 2nd, Dr. Donald M. Berwick will step down as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Replacing Dr. Berwick will be Marilyn Tavenner, who served as Berwick’s deputy principal administrator since...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Nov 18 2011
Ghosts in the Machine When you appraise research, do you look at who was the principle investigator and wrote the article? I recently attended a session at a symposium that has made me question how I review articles for credibility. Inappropriate authorship (honorary...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Oct 29 2011
PICOT Format: What is Your Question? Along the lines of my recent posts on evidence-based practice, I have one more thing I’d like to share. It’s something I wish I had known back in nursing school and especially in graduate school while working on my final research paper...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Oct 10 2011
Systematic review During my days of nursing school and research classes, we did literature reviews to determine relevant research surrounding a topic of interest. While we did learn about ensuring that studies in our literature reviews were solid, with...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Oct 2 2011
An equation for EBP I recently had the pleasure of attending a webinar on evidence-based practice (EBP) hosted by our own Anne Dabrow Woods, MSN, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC. Anne brought the concept of evidence-based practice into a whole new light for me with this simple...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Sep 14 2011
Effective mentoring I just finished reading Professional Growth: Taking a novice nurse under your wing from the September issue of Nursing2011. In this article, the author, Pamela Woodfine MSN, RN, emphasizes the importance of mentoring and making a new nurse’s...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Sep 8 2011
From MICU nurse to NICU parent In my last post, I wrote about a challenging case where a patient’s sister, who was a nurse, tried to limit the amount of pain medication we were administering. Now I’d like to share my feelings about being a nurse turned patient...
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