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How Nurses Can Take A Holistic Approach to Patient Care

Daily Nurse

Blog Health & Wellness Patient Care holistic nursingThere’s no doubt that the medical industry has faced some significant challenges over the last few years. COVID-19 has been particularly disruptive in a variety of areas.

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Racism and Other Forms of Bias are a Threat to Safe Patient Care

Daily Nurse

This study is critical because not responding to bias harms patients and colleagues,” says ENA Director of Emergency Nursing Research and primary investigator Lisa Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, FAAN. “No

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Spend less time on paperwork, billing and more time on home infusion patient care

AlayaCare

This is a landmark opportunity for the industry to continue its transformation to incorporate more Hospital-at-Home care. In this model, healthcare providers can deliver hospital-level care in the comfort of a patient’s home.

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Spend less time on paperwork, billing and more time on home infusion patient care

AlayaCare

This is a landmark opportunity for the industry to continue its transformation to incorporate more Hospital-at-Home care. In this model, health care providers can deliver hospital-level care in the comfort of a patient’s home.

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7 Ways Hospitals Can Improve Patient Care

Clipboard Health

Patient-centered care is the expectation for every health care facility. A true patient-centered approach to health care engages patients in their experience by valuing their input and individuality. Ensure All Staff Are Focused on Patient-Centered Care.

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Lawsuits That Don’t Involve Patient Care Can Still Involve Nurses

Nurse.com

But sometimes nurses have a role in a lawsuit that has nothing to do with patient care, as the following case illustrates. The floor of the patient’s room was dry before they stepped out.

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Medication Shortages Imperil Hospice Access, Quality

Hospice News

Hospice providers and patients are having difficulty procuring medications due to nationwide drug shortages, threatening quality of care and patients’ access to hospice. Shortages can also impede our ability to honor some patient and family wishes.

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Some of the Many Benefits of Being an NP

Minority Nurse

I believe that nurse practitioners bring a unique perspective to the relationship with our patients. I believe it is a more holistic approach to patient care. In addition, nurses recognize their patients as people, learning each patient’s story, priorities, and unique needs. [We]

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Magnetizing High-quality Nursing Care

Minority Nurse

The Magnet designation for hospitals emerged in 1990 under the auspices of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as a strategy for catalyzing and recognizing the highest possible standards for quality nursing care. Focus on Quality Nursing Care.

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Nurse Specialist or Nurse Generalist?

Daily Nurse

Nurse specialists and nurse generalists are common within the nursing profession and 21st-century healthcare, and both serve important purposes in patient care and non-clinical settings.

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A Day in the Life: Physical Rehabilitation Nurse

Daily Nurse

I began my career in healthcare as an Inpatient Rehabilitation Technician in a large acute care hospital. I worked as a solid organ transplant RN with critically ill patients for several years. What types of patients do you serve?

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AACN Recognizes Beacon Award for Excellence Winners in 2022

Daily Nurse

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses ( AACN ) recognized 185 units from 134 hospitals that earned the Beacon Award for Excellence in 2022. The Beacon Award for Excellence lauds hospital units that employ evidence-based practices to improve patient and family outcomes.

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Nurse of the Week: Elissa Molfino Steps Up to Care for Patient’s Dog

Daily Nurse

San Luis Obispo nurse Elissa Molfino is used to caring for her patients, but her patients’ pets, not so much. But that’s what happened when she volunteered to do when a patient who’d suffered a bad fall showed up at the French Hospital Medical Center.

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Treating the Schizophrenia Community with Humility

Daily Nurse

Clinicians should approach their psychiatric care of adults with schizophrenia with a degree of cultural and intellectual humility, recognizing patients are the experts on their lived experience.

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What Nurses Need to Know About the Flu Vaccine

Daily Nurse

Blog News Patient Care american nurses association covid covid booster covid vaccine Ernest J. It’s that time of year, and the flu is hitting hard.

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NY Hospital Initiative Prevents Tracheostomy-Related Pressure Injuries

Daily Nurse

A New York hospital reduced the incidence of medical device-related pressure injuries (MDRPIs) following a tracheostomy to zero for four years, according to a study published in AACN Advanced Critical Care. However, of the two PDT tracheostomies performed, both patients experienced MDRPIs.

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Medication Safety

Home With Help

As a Home Care Agency, we have seen where this can cause lots of issues. When you visit your primary care physician, here are some questions to ask them about the medications you are currently taking. It is one of the services that an in-home care agency offers.

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How Should Nurses Treat Transgender Patients? A Trans Patient Offers Some Tips

Daily Nurse

In nursing school, you may have learned that health care provider bias can literally endanger a patient, but when an instructor explains this, a least a few classmates will probably imagine their parents scoffing. Blog Health & Wellness Patient Care transgender patients

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Study Finds LED Lighting Cuts Risk of Falls 43 Percent

Daily Nurse

Falls in two long-term care facilities dropped by 43% after installing a dynamic LED lighting program tuned to natural sleep and wake rhythms, according to a study by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Midwest Lighting Institute.

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Documentary Honors Nurses on the Front-Lines Throughout the Pandemic

Daily Nurse

Blog News Patient Care COVID-19 Lehigh Valley Health Network LVHN nursing documentary The Strength to HealLehigh Valley Health Network’s (LVHN) first-of-its-kind documentary honors its nurses by sharing stories about their heroic work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Nurses Remain Passionate Despite Historical Issues In Need of Reform, According to Annual Industry Survey

Daily Nurse

Cross Country Healthcare’s annual national survey of nursing professionals and students finds nurses remain passionate about patient care despite historical issues in need of reform.

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How Data Analysis Helps Nurses Understand the Risk of Infectious Diseases

Daily Nurse

Blog News Patient Care Data Analysis data analytics Infectious disease Infectious Diseases role of data analytics in healthcareThe battle against infectious diseases has been present for the longest time in history.

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Now and Always, Nurses Need to be Advocates for Health Equity

Daily Nurse

Advocacy Blog Health & Wellness Patient Care Public Health communication skills empathy Health disparities Health Equity Minority health disparities reproductive health Women's health

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COVID-19 Heightens Risk for Pressure Injuries

Daily Nurse

Patients critically ill with COVID-19 are at exceptionally high risk for developing healthcare-associated pressure injuries (HAPrIs). Pressure Injury Risk Assessment and Prevention in Patients With COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit” retrospectively […].

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Who’s Watching Me? Addressing the Second-Guessing of Hospice Patient Care

Healthcare Law Insights podcast

Providing hospice care to vulnerable individuals can embroil hospices in a variety of unwanted situations. The emotions surrounding the death of a loved one can cause families and caregivers to question the kind of care provided. These sensitive circumstances can also lead to disputes between family members, or between the family and other providers or facilities, with the hospice often stuck in the middle.

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Volunteering with Mercy Ships

Daily Nurse

Blog News Patient Care Christel A. Prior to finding out about Mercy Ships, Christel A. Echu, RN, admits that if you asked her if she wanted to volunteer for any organization and not get paid, she would have said, “No.”

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UW Medical Center 1st in U.S. to Earn Nursing Distinction

Daily Nurse

Blog News Patient Care American Nurses Credentialing Center ANCC magnet designation Magnet recognition University of Washington Medical Center-Montlake UW Medical CenterThe University of Washington Medical Center-Montlake in Seattle has become the first hospital in the U.S.

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How to Best Serve Patients Who Prefer Alternative Medicine

Daily Nurse

patients routinely use alternative medicine. However, not as many patients inform their physicians about their preferences. It’s easy for the average patient to fear potential stigmas or judgment by their doctors, so they keep quiet about wanting to know […]. Almost 40% of U.S.

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Monkeypox: What Nurses Need to Know

Daily Nurse

Daily Nurse spoke with Jennifer Meyer, Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Division of Population Health Services, about monkeypox and what nurses should be aware of treating patients. Cases of monkeypox have greatly diminished in the U.S.,

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Five Basic Duties You’ll be Most Likely to Perform as a Nurse

Daily Nurse

Nurses are the ties that bind together the healthcare journey of a patient. They work relentlessly to care and advocate for individuals suffering from illnesses and getting through the whole health and wellness journey.

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Helping the Most Vulnerable Patients During a Pandemic

Daily Nurse

However, patients who have cancer face a more complex battle. Blog Coronavirus News Patient Care cancer patients with covid compassion in nursing Gabriella Magarelli Hackensack University Medical Center Nursing careers oncology nurses Oncology nursing patients who have cancer

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In the Wake of Uvalde, Trauma Surgeons Share Experience of Mass Shootings with Congress

Daily Nurse

Advocacy Blog Health & Wellness Hospitals News Patient Care Policy Public Health Texas children's encounters with Death Firearms Gun Violence Epidemic pediatricsWhen Dr. Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician in Uvalde, Texas, testified before a U.S.

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Stressed-out Kids: Task Force Recommends Anxiety Screening for 8 Year Olds. Here’s Why.

Daily Nurse

Blog Family Health Health & Wellness Patient Care Children's Health mental health Pediatric nursing reducing depression and anxietyThe U.S.

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Reducing Mistakes: What Every Nurse Can Do

Minority Nurse

Nurses from around the country watched and spoke out, supported her, and shared similar issues about the environment of care that she worked in, the failure of organizations to support nurses after self-disclosure, and the lack of trust in non-punitive response to error.

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Tips for Differentiating Between Pressure Injuries and Moisture Associated Skin Damage (MASD)

Daily Nurse

Blog Health & Wellness Patient Care Pressure Injuries Pressure Ulcers (bedsores When it comes to staging pressure injuries (PI) and identifying moisture-associated skin damage (MASD) it can be challenging.

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Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (NVHAP) Is Killing Patients. Yet There Is a Simple Solution.

Daily Nurse

MSN, MBA, FAAN went to a Boston hospital for hip replacement surgery, she was given a pale-pink bucket of toiletries issued to patients in many hospitals. Four years ago, when Karen Giuliano, Ph.D.,

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Why You Need a Patient Advocate

Home With Help

Do you know what a patient advocate is? They can be an imperative part of your health care, so we wanted to explain what the term means, what they can do, and why you need a patient advocate in your corner. What is a patient advocate. Why would you need a patient advocate?

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Opioid Tapering: Study Finds Patient OD and Mental Health Risks Remain High for Up to 2 Years

Daily Nurse

Nurses who think tapering opioid patients entails a long period of Defcon 2 or 3 vigilance now have more data to support that position. They found that patients on stable but […].

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Amid Overdose Crisis, Harm Reduction Groups Face Local Opposition

Daily Nurse

Advocacy Blog Health & Wellness Health Literacy News Patient Care harm reduction opiate use disorder SUDCasey Malish had just pulled into an intersection in the 2nd Ward when a woman with tattoos and pinkish hair unexpectedly hopped into the back seat of his gray Mazda.

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At US Hospitals, a Drug Mix-Up Is Just a Few Keystrokes Away

Daily Nurse

More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose.

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In Absence of National Data on Drug Overdoses, University of Texas Project Turns to Crowd-Sourcing

Daily Nurse

Blog Health & Wellness News Patient Care Public Health opioid epidemic SUDIn El Paso, Texas, men lined up outside the Corner of Hope, a homeless resource center, eyeing free supplies on plastic shelves inside a white van.

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Alabama Expands CRNAs Scope of Practice

Daily Nurse

Alabama patients now have increased access to safe, affordable care with the signing today of HB 268 by Governor Kay Ivey. Advanced Practice Alabama Blog CRNAs Full Practice Authority/Scope of Practice (FPA) News Patient Care Policy

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New Study Delves Into Nurses’ Concerns About Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD)

Daily Nurse

Advocacy Blog Health & Wellness Health Literacy Hospitals Nurse educators Patient Care Research End-of-life Care Hospice / End-of-life care Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) Palliative CareMarcia Bosek D.N.Sc.,