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Category Archives: research for nurses
Nurses See Help From Surgery Checklist
This week I have been focusing on a recent article on the new World Health Organization (WHO) safe surgery initiative and the adoption of the safe surgery checklist that has been released in a recent New England Journal of Medicine … Continue reading
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Tagged checklist, improvement, nurse, nursing, patient care, patient outcome, rn, student nurse, surgery, who
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Tele-Nursing Follow Up Valuable
The January issue of Clinical Nursing released a study that examined the efficacy of simple nursing telephone follow up after a motor vehicle accident patient was discharged. Patients who received simple follow-up calls from nurses were significantly less likely to … Continue reading
WHO Surgery Checklist Gaining UK Support
In the most recent podcast episode I commented on a recent news item about a study on a simple verbal checklist that reduces post surgical complications by one third. Acceptance of that study’s surgery checklist seems to be gaining support … Continue reading
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Tagged best practice, checklist, nurse, nurses, patient care, RCN, rn, royal college of nursing, surgery, who
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Nurses are Important to Quality
A recent article from Medical News Today features an entry from the journal Urologic Nursing. In the journal article the authors comment on the renewed focus on the quality of patient care and the unique place nurses and the career … Continue reading
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Tagged career, job satisfaction, nurses, nursing, quality improvement, research for nurses, rn, urologic nurses
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Patient Oral Care and Hygiene for Nurses and Episode 60
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Welcome to Episode 60 The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Listen to the show! —- Right Click to download (Macs Option Click) Subscribe with iTunes here (must have iTunes installed — it’s free) RSS … Continue reading
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Tagged activities, adl, daily, hygeine, intubation, life, living, mouth care, nurse, nursing, oral care, personal, pneumonia, podcast, podmedic, rn, teeth, toothbrush, ventilation, ventilator
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FDA Panel on Asthma Drugs Risks
Asthma Drugs Have Risks An FDA panel raised concerns about two Asthma drugs on the market based on their risks for patients including the risk of death. The two drugs, Serevent and Foradil, have been named as possibly causing increased … Continue reading
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Tagged advair, articles, asthma, beta agonist, foradil, headlines, jamie davis, journalism, nurse, nurses, nursing, patient education, podcast, podmedic, research for nurses, serevent, student
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Drug Company Influence in Journal Articles
A recent article on drug company Wyeth and their use of ghost writers to produce favorable journal articles has me asking the question about where we find credible information. Nursing Care Information I have routinely turned to journal articles to … Continue reading
Simple Nursing Interventions Make Big Differences
Fighting Hospital Based Infections Hospital acquired infection prevention is a primary focus of good nursing care. As nurses, we make decisions every day that impact the patient’s ability to avoid infections. Maintaining universal precautions, reviewing and improving nursing care basics … Continue reading
