CMS Hospital-Acquired Conditions

The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals program provides nurses with safe care guidelines for hos....

This course has been approved for 2 hours by the Commission on Case Manager Certification for 2011, 2012, 2013, ....

This course describes the initial treatment of a burn patient, and how to manage, evaluate, and prepare the pati....

The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals program provides nurses safe care guidelines for hosp....

Under pressure: just a blanchable event or an underlying injury? It can be much more difficult to distinguish a ....

Advances in technology give us easy access to a wealth of information to support evidence-based practice. By acc....

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U....

Patients with abdominal trauma can rapidly progress to hypovolemic shock or death, making it an ED priority. Thi....

From taking an order over the telephone to handing off a patient to another department, all healthcare professio....

Central line-associated bloodstream infections affect an estimated 80,000 patients in ICUs each year and are ass....