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The Importance of Safe Storage Practices: A Guide for Healthcare Workers

Daily Nurse

No matter where you work—whether it’s a private practice, a hospital, a clinic, or a patient’s home—it’s important to ensure that your medical supplies are stored safely, securely, and well-organized. Equipment includes tools and machines you may use repeatedly, like pulse oximeters and ventilators.

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A Day in the Life: Staff Nurse in the Critical Care Float Pool of a Children’s Hospital

Daily Nurse

As nurses reading this know (and a point of interest for budding nurses), you wear many hats and are responsible for critical touchpoints along the patient care continuum. In my current role, I work with a few patients at a time, continually monitoring and assessing their situation. Explain what you do in your role.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

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Nurses enter the healthcare industry with an internal yearning to care for others. Having an in-depth knowledge about patient care and being unable to ensure that patients receive quality care creates a moral conflict. How nurses experience moral injury. COVID-19: Managing Staff Mental Health During a Pandemic (.50

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

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Nurses enter the healthcare industry with an internal yearning to care for others. Having an in-depth knowledge about patient care and being unable to ensure that patients receive quality care creates a moral conflict. How nurses experience moral injury. COVID-19: Managing Staff Mental Health During a Pandemic (.50

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Resume FAQs for Nursing Students and New Nurses

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You can mention significant experiences you had or skills you developed, such as working with ventilators or assisting with procedures like placing an IV, in a bulleted list below your clinical experience. Peer reviewing can be an effective practice in catching potential errors in formatting or missing information. spring 2022).

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Case Management Fast-Growing Role, Despite Pandemic Difficulties

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It was up to case managers to organize and orchestrate these movements — all while keeping patients and their families (not to mention insurance companies) apprised at every turn. Many case managers had never done this before — they were used to primarily moving patients to their homes,” Mullahy acknowledged.