The theme of this 12 months’s Nurses Week focuses on safety – “Safety culture – it starts with YOU.” Many of us immediately take into consideration...
I stood within the doorway of room 630 and watched her, deep in thought, staring out the window. She was a 20-year-old young woman admitted to...
As flu season begins to come back to an end, we will take a step back and reflect on best practices. Guidelines for isolation in healthcare...
Following on from our previous post on isolation guidelines, below is an inventory of virus transmission precautions advisable for common pathogens. In addition to pathogen-specific precautions,...
Welcome to the primary blog in our “day in the life of…” series, which goals to present the various roles and profession paths in nursing. In...
Body mass index (BMI) and body surface area (BSA) are two measures often utilized in health care, but they usually are not well understood. Although each...
In the second blog of our “day in the life…” series, Maria Drummond (@mdrumm88), Clinical Research Specialist at ENRICH Scotland and PhD student in Nursing and...
Dean Patricia Davidson @nursingdean from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing @JHUNursing can be hosting this week’s EBN Twitter chat (#ebnjc). Wednesday, July 15, 8pm –...
Every day we see someone on the news and in our emergency rooms overdosing on prescription or street drugs. Every day, 90 Americans die from opioid...
In the third blog in our “day in the life of…” series, Catherine Paterson, Professor and Clinical Head of Nursing on the University of Canberra, Australia,...
