Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Intestinal obstruction often presents with acute, diffuse, crampy abdominal pain coupled with nausea and vomiting, obstipation, distention and tenderness. Obstruction can be partial or complete and can involve the small or large intestine.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Usually, ileus is characterized clinically by hypoactive or absent bowel sounds, abdominal distention and delayed passage of stool and gas, but the process may involve nausea, vomiting and abdominal tenderness.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing In the postoperative surgical intensive care unit, evidence of postoperative ileus ranges from 24% to 75%. Ileus can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract or just a segment, from the proximal gut, to the small bowel, to the colon.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvie syndrome) characteristically has significant dilation of the cecum and right colon without any anatomic obstruction. There is a strong association with opiate administration.
The Relentless School Nurse: Chief Wellness Officer by Intention — What Leadership Looks Like Now
This is part of a series that examines what it means to practice school nursing in a time when public health is under strain, prevention is being politicized, and the complexity of school health—and the responsibility long carried by school nurses—continues to intensify. In earlier pieces in this series, I wrote about how storytelling became…
The Relentless School Nurse: 2026 – This Is What School Nursing Needs From You
Note About This Series Over the past years, The Relentless School Nurse has become a place where stories are told plainly—about what school nurses see, carry, and navigate inside systems that often overlook their role. Those stories were never meant to stand alone. They were meant to help us see patterns, name harm, and build…
‘Why palliative and end-of-life care must be at the heart of nursing education’
Jane Turner, from palliative and bereavement support charity Sue Ryder, explains why nurse training in end-of-life care is so important and how this will benefit people. The post ‘Why palliative and end-of-life care must be at the heart of nursing education’ appeared first on Nursing Times.
Nurse donates kidney to ‘near-perfect match’ stranger
A nurse, Ellie Hoskin, has explained what convinced her to risk surgery and become a living kidney donor for a complete stranger, potentially saving her life in the process. The post Nurse donates kidney to ‘near-perfect match’ stranger appeared first on Nursing Times.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Colonic ischemia resulting from endovascular or open abdominal aortic aneurysm repairs most frequently presents as left lower quadrant pain. It is typically a crampy abdominal pain with loose bowel movements (with or without blood present).
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Cytomegalovirus (CMV) colitis is seen in immunosuppressed patients, specifically transplant patients. Neutropenic enterocolitis is almost exclusively described in the ascending colon of immunocompromised patients with profound neutropenia.