Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Ileus is characterized objectively by measurements limited mostly to research tools such as measuring gastric emptying by acetaminophen absorption tests or passage of radiolabeled carbon compounds, or small intestinal manometry.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing In gastric emptying, solids empty by zero-order kinetics, which is related to the steady antral grinding of solids and a fixed rate of emptying through the pylorus unaffected by meal volume.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing In gastric emptying, liquids empty by first-order kinetics, which relate to increased fundic pressure, causing a rapid parabolic emptying of liquids and the rate of emptying speeds up with increasing meal volume.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing A nasogastric tube placed for gastric decompression in postoperative ileus would be expected to benefit the surgical patients, but instead it worsens outcomes by increasing the incidences of pneumonia, leading to slower returns of GI function.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing When present, ileus in critical illness has been shown to be associated with nutritional deficits, greater risk of aspiration, sepsis, prolonged mechanical ventilation and increased allocation of healthcare resources.
The Relentless School Nurse: Meeting the Moment
As this new year begins, I’ve been thinking less about whether school nurses will stay or leave, and more about how we respond to the conditions we are already in. School nursing is not practiced in a neutral landscape. The work is shaped by underinvestment, politicized public health decisions, widening student needs, and a long-standing…
The Relentless School Nurse: After the Pause
Returning in January, after the pause, often feels less like easing back in the pool and more like jumping directly in the deep end—no warm-up, no shallow water, no gradual reentry. The systems we stepped away from did not rest. The conditions did not improve. The needs did not shrink. What changes is not the…
A New Year, A New Shift: Starting the Year Strong as a Nurse
The New Year doesn’t always arrive with confetti and quiet mornings for Nurses. It often shows up mid-shift, with a full assignment, a blinking call light, and coffee that’s already gone cold. And that’s okay. For Nurses, a new year isn’t about perfection, it’s about intention, resilience, and finding small ways to care for ourselves […]
The Relentless School Nurse: Grandparents For Vaccines is a Public Health Win!
Grandparents For Vaccines (GFV) has been named one of the new public health coalitions “standing up for science,” by Katelyn Jetelina, author of Your Local Epidemiologist. That recognition comes in the middle of the worst measles outbreak in more than 30 years, a moment when clear, trusted, pro-vaccine voices are not optional. They are…
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.