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Deadly E. Coli Strain Kills Thousands in Germany
We’re going to start off with a story out of Germany looking at food borne infections. We talked about these things here on the show in the past, but this one of those things especially when summer time rolls around. … Continue reading
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Tagged E.coli, food poisoning, food safety, foodborne illness, news, nursing, outbreak
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Patient Education for Effective Medication Dosing
This is an article about one of the things we do. Providing education for our patient on their medications especially for patients that are taking a lot of medication. We provide details on the time their medications should be taken, … Continue reading
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Tagged ACE inhibitors, dosing, medication, news, nurses, nursing, patient education
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New Studies on Early Diabetes Warning
This news story is from a BBC news service looking at an article that Harvard Research Team released that talks about potentially finding some precursor test that can be run for patients that are at risk for diabetes. So in … Continue reading
Past Trauma Patients at Higher Risk for Mortality
We’re going to look at the study from the March 9th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association which looked at trauma patients and the fact that they had an increased mortality rate when they had been discharged … Continue reading
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Tagged follow up care, mortality rate, news, nursing, studies, trauma patients
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Medical Home Guidelines Limit Nurses’ Role in Primary care
I’m going to start off with a look at an article I found this week on new medical home guidelines. Am I talking about people getting treated in their homes? No. Actually I’m talking about where are our patients finding … Continue reading
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Tagged advanced practice nursing, medical homes, news, nurse practitioners, nursing, primary care
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Assessing and Recognizing Human Trafficking Victims
One of the reasons is that we identify overtime other at risk populations that have specific assessment needs, specific things that we can recognize if we’re trained to do so. One of the items that popped up on my radar … Continue reading
Crossing Language Barriers for Better Patient Care
There’s a statement at the beginning of this article that is kind of a ‘duh statement’ and I’ll read it to you and you can tell me if you’d just go ‘well duh!’. Having healthcare providers speak the same language … Continue reading
Improving Outcomes With Safety Checklists
Safety checklists– this is something that we have used sporadically I think in many places off and on they come and go. We use these checklists and then they seem to fall by the waist side. However, a recent study … Continue reading
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Stroke Prevention and Awareness Part 2 and Episode 165
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Welcome to Episode 165 of the Nursing Show The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Subscribe to the Podcast MP3 Audio Version iTunes | Zune | Podcast —- Subscribe to the Podcast Studio Video Version iTunes … Continue reading
Stroke Prevention, and Awareness part 1 and Episode 164
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Welcome to Episode 164 of the Nursing Show The Nursing Show is a proud member of the ProMed Podcast Network. Subscribe to the Podcast MP3 Audio Version iTunes | Zune | Podcast | Blog —- Subscribe to the Podcast Studio Video Version iTunes | Zune … Continue reading
