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Kids in the ED: Guidelines Stress Rapid Intervention
Children and infants who end up in the ED often require specialized emergency care, yet the majority of children in the U.S. are not cared for in a children’s hospital ED, according to Sally K. Snow, RN, BSN, CPEN, FAEN, the Emergency Nurses Association liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Read more »
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The Time is Now: 'Culture of Safety' Key to Preventing Errors
When staff nurses at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center recently attended a patient-safety class devoted to infection control, they listened to a mother whose child acquired a surgery-site staph infection while in the hospital for a biopsy. The mother talked about how some clinicians wouldn’t acknowledge that her child’s infection was caused by their care, how the child spent three weeks in the ICU, how many months later, the child and her family still dread driving by the hospital because of their terrible experience. Read more »
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Daily News: Swedish Study Shows COX-2 Inhibitor Superior to Opioid
For patients with moderate pain after foot surgery, the cyclo-oxygenase 2 inhibitor drug etoricoxib provides better pain relief with fewer side effects than the opioid drug tramadol, according to a study published in the August issue of the journal... Read more »
End of Shift: Warm Welcome
I knew immediately by the scowl on her face that my preceptor was going to be dreadful. I was the first bachelor-prepared graduate hired by the hospital, and my preceptor was skeptical of my academic style of training. Read more »
Nurses Need to Consider Youths' Risks for Stroke
Strokes are much more common among the elderly, but the American Stroke Association reports annually about 15,000 people have their first cerebral infarctions by the age of 45. Read more »
Focus on Farm Fresh
A nurse at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., helped bring a farmers market to the campus this summer. Read more »
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