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Lifesaving neurology treatment inspires future career in nursing

Demi Morris is celebrating qualifying and getting her first role in nursing, a career direction she chose after receiving specialist neurology care herself while a teenager. The post Lifesaving neurology treatment inspires future career in nursing appeared first on Nursing Times.  

Filipino nurses celebrate a quarter of century of caring in Peterborough

A group of nurses who came to Cambridgeshire from the Philippines back in the year 2000 are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their arrival and subsequent careers in the area. The post Filipino nurses celebrate a quarter of century of caring in Peterborough appeared first on Nursing Times.  

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  In response to low serum calcium, the parathyroid glands secrete parathyroid hormone, which reduces the renal reabsorption of phosphate, increases renal calcium reabsorption and stimulates renal hydroxylation of vitamin D. 

Restorative clinical supervision for internationally educated nurses

How do internationally educated nurses from a global majority background benefit from restorative clinical supervision delivered by professional nurse advocates? The post Restorative clinical supervision for internationally educated nurses appeared first on Nursing Times.  

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  Extracellular calcium homeostasis is maintained by the coordinated actions of the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys and bone. Levels of extracellular calcium are detected by calcium-sensing receptors on parathyroid cells. 

Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing

Category: Critical Care Nursing  The proposed mechanism of action for the benefit of magnesium in bronchospasm involves its relaxant effects on smooth muscle and immunoregulatory actions that promote synthesis of prostacyclin and nitric oxide, leading to bronchodilation. 

Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Responding to Emerging Infectious Diseases in Corrections

This is part three, our final post, in our Correctional Nurse Clinical Update: Infectious Disease Prevention in Corrections series. Today we will discuss Responding to Emerging Infectious Diseases in Corrections. Emerging infectious diseases can appear with little warning, requiring rapid adaptation. In recent years, correctional facilities have navigated COVID-19, mpox (monkeypox), and novel influenza strains, […]