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What is PACU, and What Does a PACU Nurse Do? 

Daily Nurse

PACU nurse’s responsibilities include closely monitoring patients’ vital signs and managing common post-operative symptoms such as pain, nausea, dizziness, and other effects of surgery and anesthesia. If needed, we have standing orders for pain management, including Dilaudid, Fentanyl, or Morphine.

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LPNS and LVNs: A Potential On-Ramp to a Satisfying Nursing Career

Daily Nurse

LPNs can care for patients across their lifespans, and while they may not have the broad scope of practice of RNs, their importance within the healthcare system cannot be denied. We can consider a career as an LPN as an accessible gateway to a career as an RN if nursing ends up feeling like a good fit.

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Hospices Strengthening Ties to Tech, Pharmacy Companies to Support Families, Staff

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But also for us to be able to monitor their blood pressure and vital signs are remotely and to have a good idea of any changes. It gives the patients and their family a lot of comfort.” A range of technologies are becoming more integrated into hospice operations and care delivery.

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Empowering patients and families to escalate worries and concerns. The NHS England pilot project at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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We acknowledge that healthcare is a highly complex process, and healthcare professionals are human and may adopt bias, according to their specialty or expected patient pathway or make errors or omissions in care, in the 24hour business of life. This one year pilot project aims to see patients as equal partners in care 3.

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This National IV Nurse Day Learn More About Infusion Nurses

Daily Nurse

IV Nurse Day is celebrated every year on January 25 to recognize infusion nurses’ dedication to the healthcare system and unique skills beyond administering fluids. They also provide nursing care that involves assessing a patient for side effects and documenting medications or vital signs in their medical records.

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Discovering Your Niche: A Career in Healthcare

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In this blog, we will investigate some of these fascinating medical professions and examine what each entail, educational pathways available, unique contributions they make toward improving healthcare delivery. A medical assistant school can meet their educational requirements.

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Nursing Informatics: Vital to the Profession

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Through healthcare technology, nurse informaticists enhance patient outcomes, reduce clinical errors, and provide efficient results in clinical procedures for patients and nursing staff. Nurses and other front-line healthcare providers help drive information technology, including how it ultimately improves patient care, Newbold said.