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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Also ordered were daily dressing changes to the affected foot, vital signs, and bi-weekly (twice-a-week) blood work for the next two weeks. His vital signs were indicative of sepsis (high fever, elevated heart, respiratory rate, and low blood pressure).

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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.