Medication errors. The bigger picture.
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Drug Prescriptions↗
Biomedical subjects
Patricia Carroll
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Improve your suctioning technique.
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Humans↗
What circumstances warrant a chest drain suction pressure greater than -20 cm H2O?
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Chest Tubes↗
The heat is on: protecting your patients from nature's silent killer.
Hot weather may be uncomfortable, but for many, it can be a killer. This article describes different types of heat-related illness, risk factors for heat stroke, and outlines targeted nursing interventions and critical environmental assessments. Nurses can use this information to identify at-risk patients and conduct patient and family teaching. Because home care and hospice nurses and other staff often work in severe heat, this knowledge is also important for personal health and safety.
Diagnosis, Differential↗
Mobile chest drainage: coming soon to a home near you.
Home care nurses are seeing more patients with chest drainage devices than ever before. This article reviews the conditions that may be treated at home with mobile chest drainage devices, specific devices nurses are likely to see in the home, focused nursing assessments, tips for monitoring the devices, and key aspects of patient and caregiver teaching.
Chest Tubes↗
A guide to mobile chest drains.
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Chest Tubes↗
Procedural sedation. Capnography's heightened role.
Outside the OR, it has become increasingly common for nurses to administer procedural sedation. Now, with capnography, you can monitor patients' respiratory status more closely and accurately.
Capnography↗