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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

Diversity Nursing

Healthcare technologies can make patient care better, easier, and more efficient, especially with a large patient load. Here are some current healthcare technologies you should get to know to help better provide Nursing care to your patients. Telehealth Telehealth has become a buzzworthy topic in the healthcare community.

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SWAT RNs: Supporting Bedside Leaders with Clinical Judgment

Minority Nurse

SWAT RN Role The role of the Specialized Workforce for Acute Transport Registered Nurse (SWAT RN) has evolved in national healthcare organizations. Case Presentation Bernard Salzo is a 38-year-old male employed as a carpenter and painter. Mr. Salzo’s diagnostic presentation appeared typical for asthma. with difficulty breathing.

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

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. Although he was instructed to return in a week for a recheck, he presented two weeks later. Nurse Practitioner’s Failure and Outcome.

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Navigating the World of Long-Term Care: A Guide for Nurses

Minority Nurse

In the vast and varied landscape of healthcare careers, long-term care is sometimes overlooked. Skilled nursing communities: Also known as skilled nursing facilities, these provide comprehensive, 24/7 medical care for individuals with complex healthcare needs. Home care is different from home health.

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

Nurse.com

Frontline healthcare workers, hailed as heroes, began or ended their shifts to rounds of applause or lights and sirens from thankful citizens. But presently, the healthcare system itself may be kryptonite to those they declared superheroes. Let’s rewind to three years ago. Short-staffed and overworked. Change of shift code blue.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? There’s a vital signs tracing, the patient’s wearing a mask. So I just can’t keep going.

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The Critical Role of Charting in Nursing

Nurse.com

NYC Health and Hospitals is integrating many of its platforms, including telemetry and vital sign equipment, with the EMR. While it tracks patients’ medical history, progress, and care needs, it also communicates to other healthcare professionals your interactions and observations with them.

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