Tag: Nursing

Nurses Meet the Challenge of Mass Causalities

Nurses Meet the Challenge of Mass Causalities

Nurses working at busy hospitals need to keep their composure at all times, but receiving a large number of critically injured patients at once requires nurses to use all of their skills and training. When a gunman shot innocent bystanders at an event for Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords outside a grocery store in Tucson, Arizona, the […]

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Tattling on nursing colleagues: When is it right?

Tattling on nursing colleagues: When is it right?

Most nurses can be trusted when it comes to patient care and acting ethically at work. Taking responsibility for your own actions is one thing, but when it comes to reporting or ‘tattling’ on a nursing colleague who may be less responsible it is not always easy or appropriate. In this article, on NurseConnect, veteran […]

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Home care program for elderly improves outcomes, study finds

Home care program for elderly improves outcomes, study finds

A study in the journal Nursing Outlook found that a home-based care program for the elderly called “Aging in Place,” which integrates personalized health services and nursing care coordination, improved outcomes and reduced costs compared with assisted home living and nursing home care. Program participants also had improvements in their mental and physical health, data […]

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‘Teach-back’ to Improve Patients’ Understanding

It is essential that nurses never assume that their patients understand anything you say. It is imperative to actually confirm that a patient knows what to do when they get home, regardless of whether we think they do, or even if we think we did a good job of explaining it.  Read more on patient […]

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Nursing Students Prepare for Disaster During Nursing Skills Week

Nursing Students Prepare for Disaster During Nursing Skills Week

Nursing Skills Week included Disaster Preparedness Exercises. One of the missions of Orange County is to enhance the emergency preparedness and response capabilities of the public through advanced registration, organization and training of volunteer health professionals. Our nursing students went through multiple demonstrations along side active volunteer health professionals. Stanbridge College nursing students were given […]

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