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Advocacy in Nursing: How Nurses Champion Patients and Influence Healthcare

Nursing has always been grounded in your compassion, your clinical knowledge, and your commitment to patient wellbeing. One of the most important parts of your role is advocacy. You are often the healthcare professional who spends the most time with patients and families. That unique closeness puts you in the best position to identify concerns, […]

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  Many experts are skeptical about the clinical utility of static pressures for guiding hemodynamic management. Neither CVP nor PAOP is a good predictor of preload responsiveness (i.e., an increase in CO or SV after fluid bolus administration). 

‘Finding my voice changed the course of my placement’

Student editor Njideka E Aniagolu on how learning to find her voice has been one of the most challenging and important parts of training. The post ‘Finding my voice changed the course of my placement’ appeared first on Nursing Times.  

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  As the management of the critically ill patient has evolved, the question of volume (i.e., preload) responsiveness has taken priority over static parameters like central venous pressure (CVP) and pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (PAOP).