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Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  Hypomagnesemia is associated with a variety of dysrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation, atrial tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia and torsades de pointes. Magnesium administration during myocardial infarction is not recommended. 

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  The administration of intravenous magnesium sulfate should be the initial therapy for torsades de pointes and should be considered as an adjunctive treatment for refractory ventricular dysrhythmias. 

Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Managing Established Infectious Diseases in Corrections

This is part two of our Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Infectious Disease Prevention in Corrections. Today we will discuss Managing Established Infectious Diseases in Corrections. In correctional healthcare, some infectious diseases are so common that every nurse behind the wall will encounter them. Tuberculosis (TB), hepatitis B and C, HIV/AIDS, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and seasonal influenza […]