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Mastering the Basics: The ABCs of Nursing

Nurse.com

The ABCs of nursing care address patients’ most critical and immediate needs. Nurses can prevent serious health consequences and save lives by systematically using these components. As nurses, we play a vital role in promoting patient well-being. The ABCs acronym represents three central components: airway, breathing, and circulation.

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Tips for Differentiating Between Pressure Injuries and Moisture Associated Skin Damage (MASD)

Daily Nurse

When it comes to staging pressure injuries (PI) and identifying moisture-associated skin damage (MASD) it can be challenging. Pressure Injury Basics Pressure injuries (PI) result when prolonged pressure impairs blood flow to an area by compressing tissues/vessels. […].

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Can Kindness Improve Stress Management? 

Minority Nurse

I don’t know what has happened to nursing over time, but we must return to caring basics as a nursing profession. Music Research shows that listening to 30 minutes of music a week can reduce stress and have physiological benefits such as reduced blood pressure. Walking outside and being in nature is also relaxing.

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The ultimate nursing guide to sepsis

The Nurse Break

The inflammatory phase of wound healing requires a delicately balanced combination of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory mediators, which augment localised vessel permeability and vasodilation to expedite the delivery of white blood cells to vulnerable tissues (Chousterman et al., Read other clinical articles here. What is Sepsis?

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Heart Attacks: Symptoms, Treatments, And Complications

Boca Home Care Services

A heart attack occurs when there isn’t enough blood flowing to the heart, preventing it from getting the oxygen it needs to function. Multiple factors can contribute to the lack of blood flow. They may feel like there is something heavy applying pressure on this region. Severe cases may even result in death.

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5 NICU conditions and pieces of special equipment you must know

The Nurse Break

There are a number of potential causes, one cause is a haemolytic disease in which the baby is suffering from a complication of Rh incompatibility, in essence, the mother has an Rh-negative blood type whilst the baby has an Rh-positive blood type. Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH). Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC).

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

Daily Nurse

Jenna Cavalero is a nurse technician in her second year at Delgado Charity School of Nursing. She was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in October 2011 and was 12 years old when she went through nine months of chemo and several surgeries and was Shinn’s patient. She knew she wanted to be a nurse since the end of her cancer treatment.