Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Nursing

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Poll: What Do You Hope to Find in Your Patient’s Rectum?

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In this month's GomerBlog poll, we asked over 10,000,000 health care providers who were about to perform a rectal exam what they were hoping to find in their patient's rectum in an ideal scenario....
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Nurse Saves Resident’s A** Again

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In a usual twist of events, Nurse Betty Sue has prevented yet another resident from killing an unsuspecting patient. Late in the evening, Nurse Betty Sue noticed that resident Dr. Jen Willis had ordered 100...

Nurses Excited to Make Their Own PPE

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A national shortage of personal protective equipment or PPE is forcing nurses to get creative. "I'm so happy to live in a country where...

Orthopedic Surgeon Floods OR During Shoulder Arthroscopy

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OMAHA, NE - Officials from Hamton Hospital may have to implement new policies after an orthopedic surgeon inadvertently flooded out the operating room during a shoulder arthroscopy. “He kept asking for more irrigation or commenting...

Phyllis the Decoy Nurse

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Overworked?  Patient/Nurse ratios too high?  Sounds like you could use Phyllis the decoy nurse!!  Love this video from Dr. Subbio!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKFs22lO0A    

Popular New Manager Cool With Falls As Long As No Injury

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SAN DIEGO, CA - Red State Regional Chief Nursing Officer, Dolly McGuire, took 10 minutes at the end of one of last week’s Daily Operations Meetings to note the dramatic improvement in nurse satisfaction...
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Study: Dilaudid Administration Directly Correlates with High Patient Satisfaction; Narcan Not So Much

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BOSTON, MA - As many doctors and nurses have discovered the hard way, a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine elucidated the seemingly perfect linear relationship with Dilaudid administration and...
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CPR Guidelines Made Even Simpler

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Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was replaced by only chest compression in 2008 after a slow de-emphasis on replacement breathing.  This made CPR simple and easy to remember, and the chest compressions were set to the cadence of...

MMA Fighter Ronda Rousey Hired to Confront Difficult Patients

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SANTA MONICA, CA - The world’s number one pound-for-pound female mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and current reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Women’s Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey was recently hired by a local hospital...