June 2012
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5 P's of Rounding
One of the ways to improve patient satisfaction is hourly rounding. Each hour, the nurse should enter the patient’s room and assess for the5 P’s:
Position - does the patient need to be turned? Are they in the right position for their specific disease process? Can they reach the call button/lights/remote without danger of falling?
Pain - assess for pain every hour -> quality,...
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Leadership Day One
I just completed my first day of Leadership. Here are some thoughts before I take a bath and get some work done:
I’m going to do research for an in-service on “soft” bedside shift reports to convince the nursing director whether or not to implement the practice. Look for updates here.
They want me to work the night shift for my Capstone preceptorship (insert crazy gif here of...
“Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget.”
– Stefan Sagmeister (via kari-shma)
May 2012
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“I remember being so scared of seeing patients once because I felt like I was...”
– A doctor reassures me about overcoming the anxiety of taking on more responsibility in a patient’s care. (via medicalstate)
Patient Education: Inhaled Medication... →
cranquis:
A series of videos to help asthmatic patients learn to properly use any of their inhalers.
(Part of the reason I’m posting this is so that I can refer back to it quickly for my patients, using the TinyURL that I created for the LOOOONG actual website name: http://tinyurl.com/inhaler-videos. Feel free to pass that along to your asthmatic patients/friends!)
Life in The ER: Something that has recently... →
ermedicine:
Lately I’ve been getting a quite a few messages from pre-med students asking me if I was a nurse. While I’m not a nurse, I respect the hell out of every nurse that I work with in the ER. What’s actually startled me is some of the attitudes I’ve been receiving when people I assume I’m a nurse. A…
Medicine standing up for nursing—definitely have to reblog. Thanks for...
Signs & Symptoms of hyperkalemia
nurse-with-a-smile:
M - Muscle weakness
U - Urine: oliguria, anuria
R - Respiratory distress
D - Decreased cardiac contractility
E - ECG changes
R - reflexes: hyperreflexia or areflexia (flaccid)
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
Fuck yeah, medical stuff!: Treatments for cerebral... →
fuckyeahmedicalstuff:
In the last few months there’s been a spate of studies about cerebral palsy, some of which will blow your mind—in a good way. Max’s cerebral palsy is part of who he is, but if there were any way to diminish it and make his life easier, of course I’d want to. These studies give me hope—for Max and…
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Percent of U.S. Teens with Diabetes is on the Rise →
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“The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in...”
– Virginia Henderson, adopted by the International Council of Nurses as the classic definition of nursing.
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“Nurses deal with not only normality and pathophysiology but also with the lived...”
– Patricia Benner - “Called to Care”
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Definition of Evidence-based Nursing Practice
“The integration of the best evidence available, nursing expertise, and the values and preferences of the individual’s, families and communities who are served. This assumes that optimal nursing care is provided when nurses and health care decision makers have access to a synthesis of the latest research, a consensus of expert opinion, and are thus able to exercise their judgement as...
Bacterial Meningitis.
fuckyeahmedicalstuff:
Meningitis is caused when the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord - known as the meninges - become inflamed, usually as a result of an infection.
This infection is usually caused by viruses or bacteria, but can be caused by a fungal infection or by other pathogens. It may also develop following a serious injury to the head or spine.
Meningitis and...
“The world is changed by examples, not by opinions.”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
“Never ask a male what glove size they want. Always get a large.”
– ICU registrar’s words of wisdom today. (via itsjustcharli)
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“The health of the unity is the health of the community. Unless you have the...”
– ~ Florence Nightingale, 1894
“Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us...”
– Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (via thoughtsdetained)
rabeprazole
medical-words:
(rə-bep’rə-zōl) a proton pump inhibitor used as the sodium salt to inhibit gastric acid secretion in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease and conditions marked by excessive secretion of gastric acid.
Healthism Blog: 6 Accidental Medical Discoveries... →
healthism:
The concept of flukes occurring in medicine can be unnerving, but in a moment you’ll read about how 6 incredible medical revelations were stumbled upon in somewhat accidental ways.
1. LSD and the Discovery of the Polymerase Chain Reaction
Dr. Kary Mullis is a Nobel-prize winning chemist…
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Starting my LAST semester of nursing school tomorrow!! I can’t believe it, seems like I just started. I can’t wait to be an RN, and to continue to share this amazing journey with everyone!
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APA Made Simple
I feel like such a jerk! I was just browsing through the nursing tags and I saw someone complain about APA and realized that I have never shared my class’ trick for APA. If you haven’t already, I HIGHLY recommend you buy a kind of software like this as it has save my butt throughout nursing school. You pay a one time fee of around $28 and it formats EVERYTHING. You have to have a...
mnemonic: contraindications for injections
nursetokki:
SUBCUT: PCM
previous injection site
coagulopathy
masses
ID: PAL
previous injection site
allergies
lesions
IM: MM ABIDE
muscle atrophy
masses
allergies
bruising
inflammation
diseases causes coagulopathy
edema
“I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead...”
– Conan O’Brien’s ‘Tonight Show’ Farewell Speech (via thoughtsdetained)
Forecasters see no end to US obesity epidemic →
msnbc:
By 2030, an estimated 42 percent of the population will be obese, according to Duke University researchers.