Recent reports of whooping cough outbreaks leading to newborn deaths are causing serious concern within the medical community. In August 2006 and again in July 2010,...
In the most recent issue of the monthly magazine , Anthony Hoffman BSN, RN, describes his experiences as a diabetes educator in Nouakchott, Mauritania (situated on...
Recently, I used to be informed a couple of major problem with the supply of medicines for consumers and healthcare institutions. My youngest daughter is allergic...
I remember a patient with an upper gastrointestinal bleed, a Minnesota tube in place, on maximum ventilatory support, and two blood pressure machines, who obviously wasn’t...
This happens at any time when I travel for work, it’s almost all the time a health care emergency. I feel like I’m a magnet for...
A study published within the journal “Looks at medication errors from nurses’ perspective.” Researchers sought details about error reporting, the importance of technology in reducing errors,...
It was incredibly hot here within the suburbs of Philadelphia, in addition to the remaining of the northeastern United States. Last night, as my family and...
We’ve all been there… getting a report concerning the end of an upcoming shift and whispering to you that a patient’s member of the family is...
Mean arterial pressure (MAP) is defined as the common pressure in a patient’s arteries during one cardiac cycle. It is taken into account to be a...
Some time back I wrote a blog post on using SBAR (Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation) as a technique to assist organize your shift change report. First deployed by the...
