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The Relentless School Nurse: 2025 – A Year When Stories Became Strategy

This year, The Relentless School Nurse reached nearly 100,000 views, not as a measure of popularity, but as evidence of connection. At a moment when public health, evidence, and even compassion are openly contested, those visits tell a different story: truth still travels, persistence still resonates, and care still draws people in. Each reader, share,… 

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  For those patients who are too ill to undergo general endotracheal anesthesia, a cholecystostomy tube will temporize acute cholecystitis. The vast majority of patients with cholangitis respond to administration of antibiotics and resuscitation. 

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  Patients with significant physiologic reserve are candidates for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and cholecystectomy for acute cholangitis and acute cholecystitis. 

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  Patients in the intensive care unit setting receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) or vasopressors are especially at risk for acalculous cholecystitis. Confirmation can be made by hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) scan. 

The Relentless School Nurse: What Happens to Children When Evidence Offends Power

Children are growing up inside systems that adults actively reshape—or dismantle—in full public view. Those choices are loud, visible, and deeply consequential, even when they are buried in grant notices and “technical” changes to vaccine schedules. Every shift in research funding and immunization policy eventually lands in the most intimate places: a baby’s crib, a… 

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  In the critically ill population, most cases of out of proportion abdominal pain are acute mesenteric ischemia, likely caused by embolic disease. In such instances, laboratory studies may reveal leukocytosis and elevated lactic acid levels.