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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

Nurses Service Organization (NSO) and CNA have published the new edition of the Nurse Practitioner Professional Liability Exposure Claim Report analyzing 232 closed professional liability claims against NPs, student NPs, and NPs covered through a CNA-insured healthcare business over five years (2017-2021). since 2017.

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Nursing Informatics: Vital to the Profession

Nurse.com

For example, if a returning patient has their vital signs taken and an abnormality is detected, such as a low heart rate, healthcare staff members can compare this piece of data to the information compiled in their record. Creating nursing knowledge — Knowledge is developed after data is transformed into information.

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The ultimate nursing guide to sepsis

The Nurse Break

2017; Li et al., Former international guidelines advised that a patient could be clinically identified as septic if they met two or more of the SIRS criteria (below) with a suspected or confirmed source of infection, and many organisations have continued this practice (Marik & Taeb, 2017). Recognising sepsis in clinical practice.

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Empowering patients and families to escalate worries and concerns. The NHS England pilot project at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

We acknowledge that patients and families are experts in their own wellbeing and may identify the subtle signs of deterioration and improvement before the vital signs of NEWS scores suggest any change 4. 1] Future NHS National Deterioration Forum.

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Philippines nurses moving to Australia. The 5 W’s

The Nurse Break

I arrived in Brisbane in 2017 and I’m kind of not have to adjust much to the environment as the tropical vibe is almost the same as the Philippines. Travel and life experience here are incomparable from the countries I’ve worked and I enjoyed what I saw, learned and experienced in the past five years…. and still exploring!

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