Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

This week’s blog has been written by Dr Nicola Roberts (@DrNRoberts), Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, who raises the question whether pre-registration nursing programmes are teaching the right skills for contemporary clinical respiratory practice. Our recent study examined what respiratory care content is being taught in UK pre-registration nursing programmes in approved education institutions.

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Photo by Alex Vámos on Unsplash. We were confused by the discharge letter. Our patient had been transferred from the hospital after a two-week admission. During the admission, the Oncology treatments had been stopped. On discharge, it appeared that the medications had been restarted. The Oncologist’s plan was unclear. On the second day, the patient developed a new abdominal pain.

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The Nurse Break

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

We teamed up with International Health and Medical Services to interview Laura Pantry, a Registered Nurse and Clinical Reporting Nurse within Immigration Detention. International Health and Medical Services provide primary and mental health care services within the Australian immigration detention network under a contract with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

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Nurse Nacole

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Category: Fundamentals Dronedarone may significantly increase serum digoxin concentrations by about 2.5-fold. Therefore, when concomitantly using dronedarone with digoxin, the digoxin dose should be empirically reduced by 50%.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

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Nurse Nacole

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Category: Fundamentals Dronedarone has a considerably shorter half-life (24 hours) when compared with amiodarone (greater than 50 days), which allows for steady state to be achieved in 5 to 7 days without the need for loading doses.

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