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Results from a survey with 830 respondents conducted by the website nursingtimes.net suggests that many nurses are failing to monitor patient vital signs. Also, one of four nurses was not able to recognize adverse changes in the patients status. According to the article, one reason as to why this is so, is because of the [...]
Continue Reading →The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Alert highlights effective leadership as a critical factor in preventing errors. Jeff Selberg, CEO of Exempla Healthcare said leaders are accountable for those systems and processes which provide the framework for the clinical environment staff work within and his first priority is to understand how the clinical environment is improved [...]
Continue Reading →The Nursing Show Medication administration is a common duty of a nurse. No matter how routine it may be, taking it for granted would pose great injury in case of error. In this week’s episode of the Nursing Show, the podmedic goes back to the basics of medication administration including important points to do before [...]
Continue Reading →The Nursing Show This week’s episode of the Nursing Show features patient restraints as a follow up on last week’s episode on mobility. Since there has been plenty of issues surrounding patient restraints, nurses should be familiar with the standards applied in the use of restraints and nursing care for patients under restraints. Also featured [...]
Continue Reading →Several studies have revealed that nurse staffing levels are closely related to patient safety outcomes. If more patients are assigned to less nurses, the risk for errors is high putting the patients in greater danger of a life threatening complication. To address the issue, the New York State Senate passed the Nursing Care Protection Act. [...]
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