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Home Visits: Purposes, Principles & Guidelines, & Steps

The home visit is a family-nurse contact which allows the health worker to assess the home and family situations in order to provide the necessary nursing care and health related activities. In performing this activity, it is essential to prepare a plan of visit to meet the needs of the client and achieve the best results of desired outcomes.

Published by NursesLabs on 02/20/2012 10:08 pm

How to Identify Cardiac Arrhythmias (With Videos)

ECG reading takes some serious skill, a keen eye and a good theoretical foundations on the different dysrhythmias and the concepts around heart’s conduction and about the ECG machine itself.

Published by NursesLabs on 02/18/2012 10:03 pm

Nursing Assessment Cheat Sheet

Nursing assessment is important in the whole nursing process. This can be called the “base or foundation” of the nursing process. With a weak and incorrect nursing assessment, you might create also an incorrect nursing diagnosis and plans therefore creating wrong interventions and evaluation. To prevent those kind of scenarios, we have created a cheat sheet on which you can print or copy to be used during your assessment.

Published by NursesLabs on 02/18/2012 10:03 pm

Cholecystitis Pathophysiology & Schematic Diagram

Cholecystitis is the inflammation if the gall bladder. Read the pathophysiology, schematic diagram and concept map of cholecystitis.

Published by NursesLabs on 02/16/2012 7:00 pm

Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the lung. It is often described as lung parenchyma or alveolar inflammation leading to abnormal alveolar filling with fluid. Pneumonia can result from a variety of causes, including infection with microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, fungi, or parasites, and chemical or physical injury to the lungs. Predisposing and Precipitating Factors [...]

Published by NursesLabs on 02/14/2012 8:48 pm