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Why Telemedicine Must Play a Central Role in Solving the Nursing Staffing Shortage

Daily Nurse

In addition, some nursing stations in the virtual care center (such as Critical Care ICU) are connected to telemetry feeds and other data streams to enable off-site nurses to watch patients and their vital signs continuously.

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Celebrating Neonatal Nurses Work This Week

Minority Nurse

Neonatal nurses continually monitor the infants’ vital signs, but they also use their own five senses to watch the infants for any changes in behavior or appearance for signs of pain or infection. Neonatal nurses are particularly attuned to their tiny patients and they have especially keen observation skills.

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Exploring the Neonatal Nursing Specialty

Nurse.com

There’s a common misconception that NICU nurses only hold and feed babies. Two examples are bloodwork and vital signs for neonates — they are different from adult and pediatric patients. The post Exploring the Neonatal Nursing Specialty appeared first on Nurse.com Blog. What does a neonatal nurse do?

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Nursing Behind Bars: My Experience As a Corrections Nurse

Nurse.com

“I just want to thank you,” he told me one day when I was checking his vital signs. He wore diapers and couldn’t consistently feed himself. The post Nursing Behind Bars: My Experience As a Corrections Nurse appeared first on Nurse.com Blog. “You have helped me so much. I feel human again.”

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Tips & advice to ace your nursing studies by Jessica

The Nurse Break

Some of the tasks I perform are personal hygiene, vital signs, feeding and fluids. I use de-escalation skills to ensure the safety of myself and other patients. This is usually because someone is hallucinating and cannot identify reality. I am also watching patients that receive thickened fluids or are on fluid balance charts.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

Mm-hmm just one example from sort of ancient history though, did you know that most nurses were not allowed to touch a stethoscope or a blood pressure cuff until the 1960s physicians didn’t think that nurses had the skills necessary to take vital signs? That’s just so key.