Creating the Joint Commission "super user": an innovative plan to ensure survey readiness [0.03%]
建立联合委员会“超级用户”:确保评审准备就绪的创新计划
Jean Salera-Vieira,Susan Maxwell
Jean Salera-Vieira
Preparing for The Joint Commission accreditation survey can be a daunting process. To ensure staff readiness, we created a plan to disseminate updated information to all hospital staff. Harnessing the momentum of increased staff involvement...
Jennifer B Lemoine,Helen M Hurst
Jennifer B Lemoine
Infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are considered one of the most vulnerable patient populations, and medication errors in this population can result in devastating, life-threatening consequences. The use of "smart pump" tec...
Jeanne M Wilton
Jeanne M Wilton
Heavy menstrual bleeding, or menorrhagia, af ects approximately one-third of women. Treatments have included nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories and oral contraceptives, although neither is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sp...
Debra Vela Craighead
Debra Vela Craighead
Early term birth, which occurs at 37 to 38 weeks gestation, is often elective and can carry significant health risks to infants, including short-term and long-term health outcomes. Nurses and other health care providers involved in the care...
Therapeutic hypothermia to treat hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy in newborns: implications for nurses [0.03%]
新生儿治疗性低温疗法治疗缺氧缺血性脑病的护理含义
Lisa Merrill
Lisa Merrill
Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in newborns is caused by an injury to the brain following a hypoxic or an ischemic event during the peripartum, intrapartum or postpartum period. HIE may result in death or cause serious impairment in s...
Elizabeth Gardner,Myong Chang,Peggy Mancuso et al.
Elizabeth Gardner et al.
Infection with pork tapeworm, or Taenia solium, affects approximately 50 million people worldwide. The most important and potentially devastating form of the infestation, neurocysticercosis, occurs when the parasite invades the central nerv...
Tiffany M Montgomery
Tiffany M Montgomery
Volunteer leadership is critical to keeping the field of nursing strong and vibrant. This article describes the experience of one nurse who took several steps to increase her leadership knowledge and experience, including participating in t...
Depicting car seat safety [0.03%]
汽车安全座椅的使用方法
Kathryn Haller,Marsha Waggoner
Kathryn Haller
Anne Katz
Anne Katz
Sonia M Tavaska
Sonia M Tavaska