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Nurses Writing Patient Education Materials

The Nursing Site

Using layman’s terms is also beneficial as medical jargon is usually foreign to the patient. Using layman’s terms is also beneficial as medical jargon is usually foreign to the patient. What can be helpful, is to include a few terms that relate to the topic and define them in simpler terms so the patient understands.

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Room for Compassion

Life of a Nurse

He had some significant health conditions, but he was clear he wanted everything done as God would determine when he would depart from this realm. He He was admitted to his local hospital, and no doctor would speak about his condition other than his lack of a definitive DNR status. It 2014, when such a concept was initiated. 

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How to Keep Your Competitive Edge

Nurse Practitioners in Business

The length of each phase depends on many variables, including industry, business model, strategy, market conditions, competition, and regulations affecting the business, to name a few. Business, markets, and customer demand are constantly changing. But before I share the results, a big “Thank You” for your participation and input!

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Florence Nightingale Was an SOB

Candy Campbell

REGISTER HERE (on Eventbrite): ,[link] May 18 - 7pm PT/1000pmET -Miss Nightingale will be a guest of San Francisco's The Marsh Theatre virtual program called "Solo Arts Heal" with an interactive QA centering on the Crimean War (then and now) and her work, despite semi-invalid condition, thereafter. Au contraire!

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A Curricular Blind Spot: Skin Assessment for Patients with Dark Skin Tone

Amercan Journal of Nursing

Unfortunately, we have a serious curricular blind spot regarding caring for and assessing conditions in dark skin tone patients. Terms such as erythema, pink, pallor, and non-blanching are some of the terms that need new descriptions reflecting how they represent or manifest in dark skin tone.

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The Breadth of Caring for Those with Chronic Conditions

American Nurse

Many patients to whom nurses provide care have a chronic condition. These chronic conditions can arise from any organ or system in the body. Chronic conditions can be progressive (e.g., To clarify terminology, this article uses the term chronic condition rather than chronic illness. some cancers).

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Does CPR Help?

Life of a Nurse

There is a strange irony when a patient arrives from a long-term care facility, frail and has contractures, altered cognitive status, unable to swallow, receives gastrostomy feeds and the transfer documents show full resuscitation status. A few friends were with me, all nurses, and we recalled some of the CPR events we have been involved in.