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Helpful Apps Every Nurse Should Have

Diversity Nursing

Instead of using a scrap piece of paper or a paper towel (you know you've done it) to write down your code times, you can track all necessary documentation within the Code Scribe app. Code Scribe: Emergency situations can be stressful, but with Code Scribe, you can time and clock code situations quickly and efficiently.

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Hand washing and irritant contact dermatitis

The Nurse Break

The situation is exacerbated by frequent use of paper towels, especially if the towels are rubbed against the hands (instead of ‘dabbing’ or ‘patting’ them dry). Poor quality in paper towels. It occurs with frequent use of hand hygiene products containing soap or detergents that lead to skin drying.

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Infection Control in the Home

Hope Hospice

Dry with a clean paper towel, not a reusable cloth. Dry your hands on a clean cloth or paper towel, not a resuable towel. Wash with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds, especially after you’ve been out in public, have coughed or sneezed, or have come into contact with a high-touch surface.

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Choice, or Lack Thereof: Lenten Reflections in a Pandemic

The Chaplain's Report

Others’ choices impact our own lives as well, from refusing to follow precautions to hoarding paper towels. Some choices are made for us, like what stores are open, and others are made on our own. It seems difficult to imagine that a week ago our hospice was humming away as normal.

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Over the Threshold: Creating Solutions

Chicago Caregiving

offer much lower coverage for mental health than they do for physical health conditions , according to a paper published in the British Journal of Psychology Bulletin. We had a supplies drive — toiletries, towels, kitchen utensils. And insurance providers in the U.S. We ended up with 12 pallets of stuff,” Brown says.

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