Nurses Called to Stand Up for Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
Nurses across the US as being encouraged to support the two bills for safe nurse staffing currently under consideration at the federal level.
Nurses across the US as being encouraged to support the two bills for safe nurse staffing currently under consideration at the federal level.
Your heart is in your boots when you leave the family and head to work on Christmas morning and you might even feel a bit angry and resentful. Why is this day so different from any other day?
The researchers concluded that in a real situation it could have made the difference between the patient living and dying.
On October 31 it was announced that Wubbels had agreed to a $500,000 out of court settlement, part of which she plans to donate.
There is such a shortage of nurses that the nursing school admission interview is just a formality, especially if you have excellent grades. Right?
The interaction between humans and their animals has been an important part of people’s lives since the beginning of time. We instinctively know that our pets are good for us without needing the evidence that numerous current scientific studies are now investigating.
You find yourself strongly attracted to a patient and, especially if the attraction seems to be mutual, you could be heading for a problem.
As a nurse, you could be the one contact who identifies a victim of human trafficking and provides the means of release. However, you need to know of the signs that the patient is possibly a victim of trafficking and how to manage this highly sensitive situation.
Nursing has come a very, very long way in the past century. However, some of the challenges highlighted by nurse leaders in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s, still face the profession a century later even though their exact nature might be somewhat different.
Here are six things nurses need to know if they commit a medication error: