Nursing Blogs

from sirI - The areas of nursing most vulnerable today are anesthesia and midwifery. RNs in OB (L and D), those working solely in monitoring capacities (fetal heart, telemetry, etc.), and medication administration (including Long Term Care) are also included in highly litigious areas. Of course, the Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) other than CRNA and CNM are...

from tnbutterfly - What role do spiritual beliefs play in a “good death”? How can the nurse in her/his role as patient advocate be equipped to assist the patient and family in honoring their spiritual beliefs when considering end of life treatment? According to a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “cancer patients who...

from VivaLasViejas - ..........I went and lost my heart to yet another hospice patient. You'd think I'd have learned my lesson after caring for my old friend in that same room and witnessing her inevitable decline and death, but nope---this one had me from "Hello". Her name is Dottie, and she is 85 pounds of trouble dressed in a white satin nightgown and an...

from tnbutterfly - We all must eventually come face-to-face with our own deaths. What has influenced your views on death? As a nurse or other health-care professional, how do your beliefs about death and dying affect how you render care to the individual who is dying? Take this self-assessment from "On Our Own Terms - Moyers on Dying" to gain insight into your...

from madwife2002 - http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-polls/us-rns-what-370278-page4.html The poll on what US nurses thought about foreign RN's ran for aprox 6 weeks and interestingly during the first 3 weeks only 50 people had voted, at that time it was almost evenly distributed between, foreign nurses being a valued member of the work force and that foreign...

from madwife2002 - Importing foreign trained nurses is no new phenomenon, America has been importing nurses for over fifty years since 1965, according to B.L. Brush and A.M. Berger, "Sending for Nurses: Foreign Nurse Migration, 1965–2002" I would like to examine evidence to see if foreign trained nurses have an impact on quality of care and wages. There are...

from Thunderwolf - We often read and hear about nurses, physicians, and pharmacists getting caught diverting drugs in health care facilities. Some have wondered after the fact, how could this go unnoticed? And how could this go unnoticed for so long? When it actually happens to a colleague, I would think the normal response would be picking your jaw off the floor....

from Elvish - The postpartum period - just after giving birth - is, for most a time of happiness and adjustment to new family roles. However, for some women it is a time of overwhelming sadness, anxiety, and inability to cope with the stressors at hand. Postpartum depression, anxiety, and psychosis are mood disorders that affect approximately 10-20% of new...

from Elvish - The hospital in which I work has a contract with our state wherein all pregnant prisoners deliver at our hospital, regardless of home county. This population has a special set of needs to consider. Prisoners get a very short hospital stay - for a normal vaginal delivery, the woman goes back to the prison the next day, most often in under 24...

from sharrie - One of the questions I am most frequently asked is how do I prepare for an interview, and over the years of both being interviewed and interviewing I have built up a stock pile of questions and interview tips. There are many websites out there that can help you prepare, and I have included some of them as links here. Basic Interview Good...

from madwife2002 - Recently on allnurses I read a thread that bothered me and felt it was worth investigation, it was regarding foreign nurses taking jobs from Americans. I feel this is a real fear amongst new Grads but in todays financial climate is it realistic or unjustified. Firstly I decided to research how many foreign trained nurses there are in the USA....

from VickyRN - Passive learning Occurs when students use their senses to take in information from a lecture, reading assignment, or audiovisual. This is the mode of learning most commonly present in classrooms. It is used to acquire ideas and information that is available for recall. Advantages: Can present a great deal of information in a short...

from traumaRUs - What is a Critical Incident Stress Debriefing? A Critical Incident Stress Debriefing is a meeting involving mental health providers, peers, perhaps a religious representative that try to make sense out of something senseless. What is a critical incident? They are typically sudden, powerful events outside the range of ordinary human...

from VickyRN - The response (answer) options follow the stem. The answer selection part of the test item contains several (usually three) incorrect choices (distracters), plus one correct answer (the key). The nurse educator should use clear and direct terminology in crafting the response options. Response options should not be verbose or contain overly...