How FIGS’ New ‘Healthcare is Human Act’ Would Create a New $6K Tax Credit for Nurses
Image source: FIGS A new bipartisan bill introduced in Congress could provide financial relief to nurses and other healthcare professionals through a federal tax credit. The proposed legislation, called the…
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Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Assessment of the variation of the IVC size during changes in intrathoracic pressure with mechanical ventilation is the most common way of using echocardiography to evaluate cardiac preload and volume responsiveness patients.
Nurses seeks votes to secure new neonatal equipment for hospital
A neonatal nurse is asking for votes to help her secure thousands of pounds towards new sensory equipment for babies born critically unwell or preterm in Leicester’s hospitals. The post Nurses seeks votes to secure new neonatal equipment for hospital appeared first on Nursing Times.
Formal strike ballot underway involving nurses in South Yorkshire
Nursing staff at a trust in Yorkshire are being formally balloted over taking strike action, as a dispute over contract changes between unions and employers escalates with neither side backing down. The post Formal strike ballot underway involving nurses in South Yorkshire appeared first on Nursing Times.
Test your knowledge on back pain: learning about spinal anatomy and physiology
Test your knowledge and gain evidence of your professional development with Nursing Times Self-assessment bite-sized CPD. The post Test your knowledge on back pain: learning about spinal anatomy and physiology appeared first on Nursing Times.
Back pain: learning about spinal anatomy and physiology
A good knowledge of the anatomy of the spine is essential for developing safe, evidence-based care. The post Back pain: learning about spinal anatomy and physiology appeared first on Nursing Times.
‘Long Covid is a workforce issue that exposes how inflexible our systems can be’
On International Long Covid Awareness Day, Ruth Oshikanlu asks us to reflect on how we care for those who once cared for everyone else. The post ‘Long Covid is a workforce issue that exposes how inflexible our systems can be’ appeared first on Nursing Times.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing With the validation of echocardiography, bedside examination is increasingly replacing invasive monitoring in the contemporary evaluation of cardiac preload and prediction of volume responsiveness.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing A passive leg-raise maneuver (changing position, HOB from 30-45 to 0 degrees while elevating the BLEs to 30-45 degrees, thus moving 250-350 mL of blood from the legs to the heart) has proven to be a technique to assess fluid responsiveness.