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Head-to-Toe Assessments: A Checklist for Success

Nurse.com

You collect subjective and objective data that helps to identify a patient’s needs and problems which lead to the formation of nursing diagnoses. Heath assessments also provide vital information that can identify life-threatening conditions. Head-to-toe assessments are an invaluable component to patient care.

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Healthcare Technology and Nursing: What You Should Know

Diversity Nursing

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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Nursing Informatics: Vital to the Profession

Nurse.com

The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing informatics as a specialty that identifies, defines, manages, and communicates data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice. The essential elements — data, information, knowledge, and wisdom — encompass the concept of bringing data together in meaningful ways.

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

Hospice News

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

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

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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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. 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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Recognizing PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week

Minority Nurse

Patients are often nervous when they’re having any kind of procedure and some are particularly anxious about anesthesia. As they are checking vital signs and looking for signs of pain, they will be talking with the patient to bring them to a more alert state.