What is a perinatal nurse? Perinatal nurses help care for women and babies throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, and usually up until the new baby is around a month old. Perinatal nurses educate their pregnant female patients about their unborn child. One of the largest roles of a perinatal nurse is to teach patients, spouses, […]
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They say that the best nurses are excellent at obtaining assessments, and this is true! If nurses would look at the nursing process, assessment is the first and key step. Gathering information about the patient will provide clues for what care you can give and what you can intervene. If you have a weak foundation […]
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Mnemonics are devices that help us remember information. We remember best when events have an intense emotional response. Nursing mnemonics help stimulate some emotion through a picture, acronym, rhyme, or other devices. Nurses have come up with a few mnemonic devices that may help you remember many complicated processes when planning, practicing patient advocacy. and […]
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Nurses may always seem really nice to patients, but they are people too. They can get tired and emotional at times. There were days when they want to tell their patients some things, but they just couldn’t. 1. You might think we don’t care, but we always do Nurses do a lot of things, […]
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We all know that nursing isn’t easy. From the bedside to the operating table, nurses are some of the most trusted professionals in healthcare—by a patient’s side during both the gut-wrenching and the joyous moments. In one day, a nurse can see dozens of patients, experience death and birth, and be charged with making life-changing […]
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Figuring out what type of nurse you should be can realistically be broken down into two sections. The first is nursing career categories and nursing job specialties. Finding out which nursing career category you might be interested in will help determine which field of nursing you might wish to pursue. The nursing job specialty will […]
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You’re confident in your decision to become a nurse. With your caring personality and ability to keep calm in any situation, you know that this is the right next step for your career. What’s less clear is the nursing work environment that will be the best fit for your skills and characteristics. You have a […]
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Nurses play a very important role both locally and globally. They are on the front lines caring for patients day in and day out. They are able to see what is working, as well as things that can be done differently to provide more effective and efficient care and offer suggestions for improvement. Why […]
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As the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sweeps across the world, it is causing widespread concern, fear, and stress, all of which are natural and normal reactions to the changing and uncertain situation that everyone finds themselves in. It seems inevitable that caring for patients in the high-stakes context of COVID-19 will take its toll on the […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented challenge. The U.S. hasn’t suffered from a pandemic like this in more than a century. But other countries have recently had to deal with very frightening disease outbreaks, like the Ebola crisis in West Africa. Nurses were squarely in the public eye: examined, criticized, and, at times, praised as […]
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