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Head-to-Toe Assessments: A Checklist for Success

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Early warning signs noted by changes in your patient’s condition can be discovered, which can then lead to appropriate interventions. Head-to-toe assessments are an invaluable component to patient care. This stems from more focus being given to vital signs and the use of machines to monitor a patient’s status.

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

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We acknowledge that healthcare is a highly complex process, and healthcare professionals are human and may adopt bias, according to their specialty or expected patient pathway or make errors or omissions in care, in the 24hour business of life. 106(SUPPL 1) (pp A361) [8] Patient Safety Commissioner (nd) Listening to patients.

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Hospices Strengthening Ties to Tech, Pharmacy Companies to Support Families, Staff

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“I think that adding those [technolog] pieces in as an adjunct — they’ll never replace our people — but adding them in as an adjunct really helps the comfort for the patient and the family to know that they can push a button and get hold of my nurse,” Jet Health CEO Stacie Bratcher told Hospice News.

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The Face of Burnout in Nursing: My Personal Story and Lessons Learned

AJN Off the Charts

This blog post shares my personal story, highlighting the common ingredients of burnout and the challenges I faced. Through this experience, I learned valuable lessons that can benefit both nurses and the health care industry as a whole. Let’s make our voices heard and work towards a healthier future for patients and nurses.

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Nursing Informatics: Vital to the Profession

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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. A career in nursing informatics usually doesn’t involve direct patient care. 1 contact hour).

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

Daily Nurse

Now that the Public Health Emergency has ended, reimbursement and demand have returned to more realistic levels, leaving travel nurses feeling burned out, expendable, and unsure of what comes next in their careers – while leaving health systems still lacking the nurses they need to provide safe, high-quality patient care.

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A Day in the Life: Cardiac Nurse

Daily Nurse

So, what’s it like to be a nurse focusing on patient care with the heart? What I like most is the delicate balance we manage between the patient’s vital signs and the medications being given. We interviewed Caitlin Fetner RN, BSN, Cardiac nurse, University of Maryland Capital Region Health.

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