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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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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

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Although technology could never replace compassion and human interaction, it can significantly improve and streamline processes and procedures to ensure patients receive the best quality care. Healthcare technologies can make patient care better, easier, and more efficient, especially with a large patient load.

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

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Nurse practitioners (NPs) have a great deal of responsibility regarding patient care, and as the healthcare landscape evolves, so do the daily risks NPs face. Nurse practitioner malpractice data can be used to inform and address areas of clinical improvement as well as help to improve the quality of care and patient safety.

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The Critical Role of Charting in Nursing

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According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), clear and accurate documentation is essential for safe, quality, evidence-based nursing practice. This applies across settings, for registered and advanced practice nurses alike, according to ANA’s Principles for Nursing Documentation Guidance for Registered 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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Navigating the World of Long-Term Care: A Guide for Nurses

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However, they also present unique emotional and physical challenges that require resilience, empathy, and a strong commitment to patient care. Rewards Meaningful relationships: One of the most rewarding aspects is the opportunity to develop deep, meaningful relationships with patients over time.

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The Rise in Nurse Suicides: Signs, Stigmas, and Prevention

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Nurses bear the burden of this highly demanding job — balancing safe patient care and high expectations with staffing shortages, patient load, bullying, and workplace violence or abuse. Nine out of 10 nurses believe staffing shortages impact safe patient care. But nursing is more than just a stressful job.

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