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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

An example of an NP’s failure to order diagnostic/laboratory testing includes: A 51-year-old diabetic male patient presented to the NP’s office following an emergency department (ED) visit due to a wound on his right foot that appeared to be infected. Although he was instructed to return in a week for a recheck, he presented two weeks later.

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Two Childhood Cancer Survivors Share Unbreakable Bond at Children’s Hospital New Orleans

Daily Nurse

I graduated from nursing school in May of 2005. Shinn: My nursing education prepared me for the basic, essential tasks of nursing, such as taking vital signs, but the on-the-job experience teaches you how to apply those basic textbook skills to your patient and hour-to-hour activities.