Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Echocardiography is an important application of ultrasound in cardiac arrest. It focuses on identifying the causes of cardiac arrest such as cardiac tamponade, pulmonary embolism, hypovolemia or myocardial failure.
The Relentless School Nurse: The Most Pressing Issue in School Nursing Is Not What People Think
If you ask school nurses what the most pressing issue in our profession is right now, you will hear many answers. Staffing shortages. Student mental health. Workload. Burnout. Documentation. Delegation. Funding. School safety. Increasing medical complexity. All of these are real, and all of them deserve attention. But they are not the whole story. The…
Children with medical complexity: challenges and the need for change
Children with medical complexity are increasingly surviving birth and infancy but miss out on equitable and appropriate care, as this first article in a series explains. The post Children with medical complexity: challenges and the need for change appeared first on Nursing Times.
Tips for Being Your Own Best Advocate – Be An Active Member of YOUR Team
Using patient portals is a critical part of care coordination and helping the patient be an active member of their team. So why are they so difficult to use as […]
Who Is Responsible for the Care Coordination of YOUR Health and Healthcare? YOU.
In theory, your primary care physician (PCP) is the quarterback of your care. Managed care was designed so that every person had a PCP who knew them, followed them over […]
When the Waiting Room Becomes the Hardest Part of Healthcare
Most of us are used to waiting for things — in line at the grocery store, at a red light, or for the coffee to finish brewing. How much waiting […]
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Tension pneumothorax can cause decreased cardiac preload and echocardiographic findings show hypovolemia and possible mechanical cardiac compression or shift.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing A pulmonary embolism causes the obstruction of blood flow from the right side of the heart to the left. It commonly presents with signs of right-sided pressure overload and RV failure, in conjunction with a hypovolemic and hyperdynamic LV.
White House Drops New AI Policy with No Mention of Nurses—As Protests Heat Up
The White House has released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence: Legislative Recommendations, a broad proposal intended to guide Congress in developing the first comprehensive federal AI law. [email-capture]…
AI Doctors Could Soon Diagnose and Prescribe—But What Does That Mean for Nurses?
With AI nurses ‘agents’ on deck and people turning to AI for medical advice, it was only a matter of time before AI ‘doctors’ entered the Internet. And healthcare startup…