Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

MAY 8, 2023

Without nurses, the healthcare system would essentially grind to a halt. We call nurses the lifeblood of healthcare, and they're also the connective tissue and the veritable mitochondria, the cellular powerhouses of the delivery of patient care. But nurses are more than that.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Patient care is more than just physical healing. Good healthcare includes building a connection that encompasses a patient’s mind, body, and soul. Her blog is Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog. Other times, it is done implicitly, unconsciously, but still doing harm.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although the infusion nurse only has knowledge of this one particular incident, she has to wonder (as would the other infusion team members) if the RN has been ignoring infusion rates with other patients. The nursing home care administrator has an obligation to fairly investigate the RN’s conduct.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. What are the repercussions for your nursing career? And how can one accomplish both?

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Once you’ve had your first job as a registered nurse (RN), clinical rotations and externships no longer need to be listed. If you’re already a licensed practical nurse/licensed vocational nurse (LPN/LVN), certified nursing assistant (CNA), or patient care technician with recent experience, it’s not necessary to list clinical rotations.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard to believe that a privacy curtain would be a focal point of lawsuits involving nurses, but it happens. I wrote about a similar situation in a recent blog. The following case describes another unfortunate outcome involving a patient’s privacy curtain. Reported facts of the case. Trial court analysis and decision.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Nurses are leaving direct care — and dissatisfaction with outdated staffing models may be a big reason why. How can you provide safe, efficient patient care and meet the evolving needs of nurses? Innovative nurse staffing models can be the answer. Nurses are thriving with these novel staffing models.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This, in turn, results in better patient care, improved clinical outcomes, higher patient and employee satisfaction, and enhanced retention rates, she added. The post Dressing for Success: What To Wear to a Nursing Interview appeared first on Nurse.com Blog.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Nurses always seem to show up where and when they’re needed. Of course, they staff emergency rooms, ICUs, home health care agencies, community health clinics, and nursing homes worldwide, but they show up elsewhere, too.

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Nurse.com

MAY 18, 2022

In past blogs, I have reviewed cases that demonstrate the powers and authority of nursing boards. Oftentimes, such a discipline is based on the nurse licensee’s unprofessional conduct. In the following case, an LPN fought a board of nursing order revoking her license. Expired Medications Discovered by ED Nurse.

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Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

What inspired you to become a nurse? When my siblings and I were younger, on the weekends, she would take us to visit the residents at the nursing home where she worked. This fueled a lifelong passion for caring for others and giving back at an early age. My healthcare journey was influenced early on by my mother.

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Nurse.com

JULY 20, 2022

When on duty, an RN must inform someone in nursing administration of the need to leave so that patient care and other nursing responsibilities are completed by another nurse or healthcare provider. This is essential so that patient safety is not compromised. Consequences for Patient Abandonment.

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Nurse.com

APRIL 22, 2023

Marie Wilson, RN Communicating with professionals in various healthcare roles — such as personal care assistants, patient care technicians, and certified nursing assistants — was a necessity to ensure the latest information was available to anyone caring for patients. difficile can be prevented.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 3, 2022

Although the infusion nurse only has knowledge of this one particular incident, she has to wonder (as would the other infusion team members) if the RN has been ignoring infusion rates with other patients. The nursing home care administrator has an obligation to fairly investigate the RN’s conduct.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 5, 2023

And three years ago, I entered Robert Morris University’s BSN-DNP program to become a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. As a nurse, I have worked in an acute care setting caring for lung transplant patients. What is the most significant challenge facing nursing today?

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Minority Nurse

APRIL 18, 2022

You’ve expanded your nursing career to begin your own business. How did you decide to make the leap as a nurse entrepreneur? I can further elaborate… Bedside nurses still have problems with staging pressure injuries and implementing proper preventative measures.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In some DNP programs, you can choose a clinical nurse specialist or educator track, or you can choose to focus on direct patient care as an expert clinician. Your DNP program will provide a much deeper dive into the theory and science driving evidence-based advanced nursing practice.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 21, 2022

She had an UTI, her transport back to the, um, nursing home that she was from was delayed go figure. So the charged nurse kind of parked me there and I’ll never forget just how I felt like she was so sad and thinking, oh my gosh, I hope she’s not like this all the time. Go sit with her. Wendie Colvin: ( 22:21 ).

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

And it’s empowering for other nurses looking at this, saying that they don’t have to do the cookie-cutter jobs of being in the nursing home, the hospital, or the bedside. It’s very empowering.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 19, 2023

I was unsure if I would be an effective nurse,” she says. “ I shared my concerns with my mother, an ICU nurse at the VA then. Nurses are needed to help guide policy, and the information is particularly validating to listeners when it comes from a nurse with a disability.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 10, 2023

After a hospitalization, home healthcare enables patients to recover where they feel most comfortable: in their homes. Nurses visit patients to provide care to keep them at home, given that hospital readmissions cost the U.S. healthcare system more than $41 billion each year.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 6, 2024

They can prescribe medication and provide psychotherapy to their patients. Psychiatrists often work in hospitals, clinics, private practice, nursing homes, government agencies, and correctional facilities. They may collaborate with other healthcare professionals, such as psychiatric nurses , psychologists, and social workers.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog. I got a question then, because I see one in 12 nursing home patients with dementia are placed on thickened liquids.

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