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Nursing the Nation and the World

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Just as firefighters rush into burning buildings and police officers run towards the active shooter, nurses don their gloves and deal with the sputum, the blood, the pus, the emesis, the feces, and the urine — body fluids be damned, there's work to do and nurses do it. The Ubiquitous Nurse Where would the country be without nurses?

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Nurse Specialist or Nurse Generalist?

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Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are both common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care as well as non-clinical settings. What are the repercussions for your nursing career? All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

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valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.

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Nurses Week: Giving Thanks

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While they're at it, they could also choose to address issues related to safe staffing, decrease nurse:patient ratios, and pay attention to the ways in which healthcare workers are still in need of systemic support. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

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There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. There were rules a little bit, because the healthcare system likes to have some level of consistency as people move in.

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The Nurse Warrior: Fighting the Good Fight

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Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission. All things Nurse Keith can be found at NurseKeith.com.

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Regulators Taking Aim at Hospice PE Backers

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“As Wall Street firms take over more nursing homes, quality in those homes has gone down and costs have gone up. Medicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve and expect.”. That ends on my watch,” Biden said. Congress also asking questions.

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