Daily Nurse

MARCH 25, 2024

Nursing is among the most demanding and critical jobs in the healthcare industry. To provide the best care to patients, nurses must continuously enhance their skills and expand their knowledge. The Importance of Obtaining Additional Certifications We cannot overstate the value of nursing certifications.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 28, 2024

Recognising the pressing need for action, British Sikh Nurses (BSN) initiated a groundbreaking campaign for CPR training in partnership with the Resuscitation Council UK called the #ReStartAHeart Campaign. By strategically delivering CPR training in places of worship, BSN saves lives and tackles health inequalities head-on.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 30, 2025

This weeks blog is written by Hanna Jrbrink, a specialist nurse surgical care, PhD student, and research nurse at the Department of surgery and trauma care, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden. Nurses on the Brink: A Workforce in Crisis Nurses play a critical role in trauma care, yet they are facing an unprecedented crisis.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 27, 2023

The life and career of a nurse can be inspiring and fulfilling, and, like any career, it can also become stale, stagnant, and not as fulfilling as it used to be if it’s not carefully fed and watered. All jobs risk becoming rote and robotic, and nursing is no exception. Maybe she was a single mom who worked as a CNA for several years.

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Diversity Nursing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In the fast-paced world of healthcare, where long hours, demanding schedules, and challenging situations are the norm, it's essential to take a moment to reflect on the things that make the Nursing profession uniquely rewarding. Let's delve into the aspects of the field Nurses are thankful for.

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Diversity Nursing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you're interested in joining the Nursing field, or changing your Nursing Specialty, you'll want to learn more about which Specialty is the right fit for you. Neonatal Nursing may be the perfect career choice. Nurses working in the NICU have a wide variety of responsibilities. Certification in Maternal Newborn Nursing.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Lactate clearance has been shown to be equivalent to central venous oxygen saturation as an endpoint of early septic shock resuscitation. Lactate clearance measurements are the preferred endpoint of resuscitation.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing If the lactate concentration has not decreased by 10-20% two hours after resuscitation has begun, steps should be taken to improve systemic perfusion. Resuscitation should continue until the lactate concentration drops below 2 mM/L.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Category: Fundamentals The goals of cardiopulmonary resuscitation are to restore energy to the heart so it can resume normal function and ensure adequate energy supply to the brain during resuscitation. Oxygen is vital to these goals.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear. Hospice nursing supports patients with dementia.

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The Nurse Break

JULY 31, 2022

In collaboration with the Australian Government Department of Defence and the Royal Australian Navy , we are excited to bring you this Q&A about nursing in the Royal Australian Navy as a Reservist, by Lieutenant Commander Alison Zilko. Military Nursing Articles. Role of a Nursing Officer. Write for us. Introduction.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing In addition to uses in resuscitation, capnography can also be used to monitor patients with active seizures and maintain appropriate ETCO2 levels in patients with elevated intracranial pressure.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Septic shock often causes three major effects that must be addressed during resuscitation: hypovolemia, cardiovascular depression and induction of systemic inflammation. Septic shock produces hypovolemia, reducing right ventricular filling.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Normal arterial oxygen saturation following resuscitation from ischemic brain injury is a primary goal. The injured brain may not be able to compensate for hypoxia by augmenting cerebral blood flow.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing During cardiac arrest, ETCO2 reflects the degree of pulmonary blood flow as alveolar ventilation and basal metabolism are constant, so that it can be used to gauge effectiveness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing In cardiac arrest, return of spontaneous circulation is the priority in cerebral resuscitation. The degree of brain injury depends on the duration of complete cerebral ischemia (the downtime) and duration of relative ischemia during CPR.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing A rising lactate concentration (or refractory hypotension, with worsening base deficit), despite ongoing resuscitation, calls for more intensive measures. Once shock has been discovered, the next step is to consider the cause of the shock.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing A downward trend of the serum lactate concentration or upward trend of the base deficit, with correspondingly improving vital signs and urine output, reliably gauge the adequacy of resuscitation and prognosis in shock from any cause.

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Nurse Nacole

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Capnography provides a means of monitoring the patient's physiological response to ongoing resuscitative efforts with minimal interruption to compressions for the purpose of checking for pulses.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Extraglottic devices, such as laryngeal mask airways (LMAs) and the King Laryngeal Tube (LT), are also important for the initial resuscitation of apneic patients and for rescue ventilation when intubation fails.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Although 100% oxygen may have been used during initial resuscitation, providers should titrate inspired oxygen to the lowest level required to achieve an arterial oxygen saturation of ≥94%, to avoid potential oxygen toxicity.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Drowning is a form of asphyxia usually resulting in bradyasystolic arrest. Because drowning often is accompanied by hypothermia, the victim may benefit from prolonged resuscitation efforts, similar to resuscitation efforts for hypothermia.

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AJN Off the Charts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Jonathan Nover, MBA, RN Vice President of Nursing | Emergency Services Mount Sinai Health System, New York City The problem. A nursing practice alert. We created a nursing practice alert to highlight several key elements we’d learned. Although our nurses at the Mt.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 9, 2025

Category: Critical Care Nursing Restoration of adequate cardiac function is the defining factor of return of spontaneous circulation, but restoration of good neurologic function is the defining factor of successful resuscitation.

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Nurse Nacole

AUGUST 4, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Central venous access remains a cornerstone of resuscitation and critical care. Advanced hemodynamic monitoring, placement of transvenous pacemakers and administration of certain medications all require central venous access.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 23, 2025

Category: Critical Care Nursing Inadequate oxygen delivery (DO2) causes cells to convert to anaerobic metabolism, resulting in lactate production. Continued resuscitation efforts are aimed at optimizing DO2 to prevent multiorgan dysfunction and recurrent arrest.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 24, 2025

Category: Critical Care Nursing Serum lactate levels provide an indirect measure of whether oxygen delivery (DO2) is adequate to prevent anaerobic metabolism. A single lactate level is almost universally elevated after resuscitation from cardiac arrest.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 21, 2025

Category: Critical Care Nursing Resuscitation of a cardiac arrest victim does not end with return of spontaneous circulation. Management includes rapid diagnosis and treatment of the disorders that caused the arrest and complications of prolonged global ischemia.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 4, 2025

Category: Critical Care Nursing Central venous oxygen saturation, ScvO2, can be used to monitor resuscitative measures. The mixed venous blood oxygen saturation in the pulmonary artery (SvO2) represents the oxygen remaining in the blood after systemic extraction.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Resuscitation after cardiac arrest is likely to fail if PETCO2 values of 10mmHg or more are not achieved. Therefore, values less than 10mmHg should prompt the clinician to enhance the quality of CPR.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 7, 2025

Category: Critical Care Nursing For ongoing resuscitation of arrest rhythms that fail to respond to CPR and defibrillation, intravenous or intraosseous access should be obtained so that vasopressor therapy can be administered and repeated every 3 to 5 minutes.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Three incredible labor and delivery nurses from Texas—Julie Watson, Nicole Curry , and Alyssa Gonzalez—are proving just that by using Sabrina Carpenter’s hit “ Please Please Please ” as a guide for performing CPR! ” The nurses hope their creative discovery will educate others on the importance of life-saving skills.

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Minority Nurse

AUGUST 12, 2024

If you’re a nursing school student, you might be thinking about what to specialize in if you don’t want to become a general registered nurse. Or, if you’re a nurse in the workplace, you might think it’s time for a career change. 5 Specialties to Consider Flight Nursing Yes, some nurses work on flights!

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 25, 2022

“This is the third Nurses Day celebrated since the start of the pandemic and nurses’ work has gotten more recognition than ever. ”—AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa in her editorial, “Honoring Nurses Where They Need It” The May issue of AJN is now live. But is that recognition enough?”—AJN

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Neonatal Nursing Week is September 14-20, celebrating the dedication and hard work of neonatal nurses who provide essential care to their tiniest patients. The neonatal field is broad, and there’s so much that people don’t know about these nurses who work hard to keep critically ill babies alive and well.

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Nurse Nacole

MAY 14, 2024

Category: Fundamentals Quality chest compression increases the efficacy of drugs administered during resuscitation, whereas inadequate circulation leads to minimal effects from peripherally delivered drugs.

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Nurse Nacole

MARCH 12, 2024

Category: Fundamentals During the initial phase of resuscitation (airway, breathing, circulation, disability), consideration for the diagnosis of pneumothorax should be considered in patients who are tachycardic, hypotensive and dyspneic.

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