Erectile Dysfunction is Red Flag for Silent Early Cardiovascular Disease
In addition to being an important health and quality of life issue for men, erectile dysfunction...
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Nursing
VIDEO: A Tribute to Nurses
Carolyn Jones spent five years interviewing, photographing and filming nurses across America,...
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Each State’s Predicted Nursing Demand
NURSING@GEORGETOWN The demand for health care professionals — especially those who work in...
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Nurse Practitioners Step in to Fill Growing Need for House Calls
Researcher: States could revisit regulations on NPs to help meet demand. Nurse practitioners are...
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13 apps to help nurses improve patient care
Nurses play a crucial role in improving the care of a hospital’s patients. As technology...
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Tobacco Screening & Counseling in the Pediatric ED
Previous studies have shown that the pediatric ED tends to underuse parental tobacco screening and...
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Diabetes in the ED: Opportunities for Improvement
According to 2011 estimates, about 79 million Americans had prediabetes and another 7 million were...
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Preparing for Avian Influenza Outbreaks
Who Flew the Coop? Few studies have determined the likelihood of emergency nurses reporting to...
Read MoreEmergency Nursing & Workplace Violence-Infographic
In a survey published in the May 2014 Journal of Emergency Nursing, nearly 800 participants responded: ...
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Emergency Nursing & Workplace Violence
ED nurses are too commonly exposed to workplace violence, according to findings of a study...
Read MoreLogistics Programs Benefit ED Wait Times
A Focus on Improving Patient Flow With ED crowding continuing to be an important public health issue, hospitals across the United States are scrambling to pursue aggressive strategies that improve patient flow in EDs. A...
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A Data-Driven Approach for Nurse Staffing
Unplanned nurse turnover is a primary threat to a hospital’s sustainability. Foremost, the price...
Read MoreOvercoming Barriers to Clinical Research in the ED
Clinical research in the ED is important to providing supporting evidence for the development of practice guidelines and is vital to enhancing patient outcomes. A recent study was conducted to describe barriers and lessons...
Read MoreDo BSN Nurses Provide Better Care?
A paper entitled “An increase in the number of nurses with baccalaureate degrees is linked to lower rates of postsurgery mortality” appeared in Health Affairs in March and generated quite a lot of buzz on the...
Read MoreImproving Sepsis Care in the ED
For patients with severe sepsis and septic shock in the ED, studies have shown that goal-directed therapy is effective. However, many EDs throughout the country have not implemented such protocols. In a recent study, a survey...
Read MoreFinding a Teachable Moment in Nursing
Patient education is one of the most important aspects of nursing care. It builds patients’ self-esteem, self-awareness, sense of responsibility, and provides them with effective coping mechanisms. Furthermore, it reduces...
Read MoreThe “Second Victims” in Nursing
Tears rolled down my face as I came across an article written 2 years ago. A veteran pediatric nurse took her own life several months after administering a fatal overdose of an electrolyte to an infant. After investigations and...
Read MoreMale Nurses Up 7% – And Earning 19% More Than Women
The influx of patients spurred by healthcare reform as well as today’s shortage of primary care physicians is creating enormous demands on an unprepared healthcare system. In the wake of nurses redefining and expanding their...
Read MoreMild TBI: Identifying Patients at Risk
For emergency nurses, it can be challenging to identify patients with a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and how best to manage these individuals at discharge. A study has found that emergency nurses need to be aware that...
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The Impact of the Next Generation of Nursing
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will mean the addition of as many as 35 million...
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