Sun.Aug 11, 2024

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Nurses need nurses for their resilience and wellbeing

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This week’s blog is written by Dr Judith Benbow, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, Professor Danny Kelly, Royal College of Nursing Chair of Nursing Research, Cardiff University and Professor Aled Jones, University of Plymouth. Nurses seek help from other nurses as their primary coping strategy. Notwithstanding patients’ needs for more nurses, crucially nurses need more nurses for their resilience and wellbeing, now more than ever during this intractable workforce crisis.

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Traditions Health of Ardmore, OK Awarded Home Health Accreditation

Traditions Health

Franklin, TN – Traditions Health of Ardmore, OK has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Home Health Accreditation by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects a healthcare organization’s commitment to providing safe and quality patient care. The Ardmore home health branch underwent a rigorous, unannounced onsite review.

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A Caregiving Comfort: Watch

The Caregiving Years Training Academy

(Join us on CaringOurWay.com to receive a weekly Caregiving Comfort, which speaks to the reality of caregiving while offering hope.) It’s what you wear and what you do. The watch you wear reminds you that you are late, that you must rush, that you’ll always be behind. The watch you take means you watch for declines, for problems, for the next shoe to drop.

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Critical Care Nursing

Nurse Nacole

Category: Critical Care Nursing Changes in blood volume, vessel tone and cardiac function may occur alone or in combination. Therefore, it is possible to have a normal or elevated central venous pressure in the presence of normovolemia, hypovolemia and hypervolemia.

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3 Reasons to Retire Pagers from Healthcare Settings

Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.

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What’s In My Bag?

The Caregiving Years Training Academy

We carry a lot. Sometimes, we carry too much. This week, let’s make sure we carry what helps, supports and comforts. Let’s clean out our bag and toss away what drains, discourages and disappoints us. We can remember that we control what we carry by asking ourselves this question to start our day: “What’s in my bag?” We can carry: realistic expectations and toss the unreasonable ones healthy snacks to avoid the temptation of the junky ones hopeful perspectives to quiet the doubts that steal our f