Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
DEFINITION Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is an infection of the female reproductive organs. It usually occurs when sexually transmitted bacteria spread from your vagina to your uterus and upper...
View ArticleStrategies to Prevent Pressure Sores
It’s a lovely morning. Nurse Jenie has a smile plastered on her face as she starts her day in the hospital. The sun shines brightly, the weather’s not-so-hot, no traffic today. Everything was just...
View ArticleLook and sound alike Drugs
Toxic duty shifts. Time pressure. Work overload. It’s just like this every single day. Nurses get to experience a lot of things in an 8-hour long duty. Exhaustion and pressure tend to mix up, leaving...
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Cystoclysis
You just have received endorsement from the outgoing nurse. You check on the chart and assess your patient. You check the IV lines and IV sites, you check the due medications and if the stock’s enough...
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How to perform bed shampoo
In today’s class, the clinical instructor is discussing all about Bed bath, bed shampoo and sponge bath. While the Clinical instructor lectures about bed shampoo, Kayla finds herself engrossed and...
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Why I want to be a nurse: Reasons why students took up nursing
As children, we were oftentimes asked in school what we wanted to be when we grow up, it is usually followed by questions why we wanted to be such and sometimes, we would even be asked to write a long...
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How to Stay Sane in Nursing School 101
Exams here, NCPs there. Clinical duty today, drug studies due tomorrow. Anxious of that long quiz you took yesterday, worried of not finishing your assignments today. About to go crazy, well, maybe...
View ArticleIssue in Healthcare: Mandatory Flu Vaccines for Health Workers
CDC, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) endorse that all U.S. health care workers get vaccinated...
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Top 15 quotes about Nursing that will Empower You
At some point of our nursing careers, we might feel like giving up. “I can’t do this anymore. Nursing isn’t for me,” we might say. Nursing is one tough profession. It isn’t just for anybody. For one to...
View ArticleTourniquet Test For Dengue
Kayla is not feeling well. This afternoon, after taking a nap, she woke up with a fever and body weakness. She heads to the kitchen to get herself a glass of water as she encounters her sister, Elaine,...
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Giving hope for Cancer patients: Checkpoint Inhibitors
Tessie tears a bit after reading a tear-jerking chapter from the book she’s currently obsessed with. Why on earth should her favorite character die because of lung cancer? Aren’t there any treatments...
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Self-Assembling Materials as Artificial Veins
For years, researchers have found a way to generate artificial veins. However, most of those attempts at creating artificial veins don’t come close to imitating organic processes. In recent years,...
View ArticleNew Innovation in Healthcare: New Medications for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
New discoveries and innovations have continued their rounds in the health-related professions. Through the years, they continue to create wonders in patient care and outcomes. One of the recently...
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Trick or treat: 10 Scary Nursing Stories
And just like that, it’s Halloween, again. But what’s Halloween without a good hair raising story to keep you up all night, right? Here’s a compilation of creepy nursing stories that will surely leave...
View ArticleNursing Interventions for Necrotizing Fasciitis
Nursing Interventions for Necrotizing Fasciitis Identify patients at risk, and report these suspicions to the health care provider Vital signs including intake and output, and laboratory data should be...
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Nursing Interventions for Scabies
Obtain a thorough history. Ask if any of the patient’s close contacts have the same signs and symptoms. Implement contact precautions and maintain them for 24 hours after the start of effective...
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Nursing Interventions for Myiasis
Obtain a thorough and pertinent history Obtain vital signs and assess other symptoms, followed by a list of all current medications and allergies. Notify the doctor, nurse supervisor or nurse manager...
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Is Nursing for You?
You aspired for this. You have toiled hard. You have spent late nights studying. You have sacrificed a lot just to be where you are now. But despite these efforts, how do you know if this profession...
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Nursing Interventions for Brain Abscess
Obtain a thorough history of the patient including history of infections Nursing interventions should support the medical treatment, as do patient teaching activities that address neurosurgical...
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Nursing Interventions for Primary Herpetic Gingivostomatitis in Young Children
Administer analgesics and topical anesthetics as needed to provide relief especially before meals to encourage food and fluid intake. Monitor hydration status since children are at risk for...
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