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Wound care: Five evidence-based practices

American Nurse

The best practices for the best outcomes Takeaways: Managing co-morbidities is key to wound care management. Clinical evidence does not support sterile over clean technique in wound care. In 2018, Kent and colleagues also found no difference in wound infection rates when using clean or sterile techniques.

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Why Nursing Certification Matters

Nurse.com

The more skills and specialties you have, the better equipped you are to provide your patients with higher quality care. Through nursing certification, you can expand your knowledge base and gain the skills you need to confidently assist your patients. Enhance Professional Opportunities. Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification.

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Cesarean birth reduction: EBP in action

American Nurse

Takeaways: As nurses, our code of ethics guides our practice and requires us to advance our profession through research and scholarly inquiry. Empowered nurses seek opportunities for practice improvement and share their findings with colleagues. Acquire the evidence within the literature. See EBP defined.) Assess the outcomes.

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A staff nurse’s AI wish list

American Nurse

Phone dictations, minimally invasive and robotic surgery, telehealth, computer vision and medical image recognition, and many others are part of the growing AI-assisted medical arsenal that’s largely benefitting physician providers and advanced practice nurses. How about the staff nurses? We won’t surrender to the robots just yet.

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Why Nursing Certification Matters

Nurse.com

The more skills and specialties you have, the better equipped you are to provide your patients with higher quality care. Through nursing certification, you can expand your knowledge base and gain the skills you need to confidently assist your patients. Enhance Professional Opportunities. Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification.

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How to Become a Registered Nurse

Post University

If you feel called to care for others and want to have an impact on your community, you might find that the nursing profession allows you to carve out your own path. Registered nurses are licensed healthcare professionals who often provide hands-on patient care. Providing patients with exams, medication, and treatment.

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Magnet4Europe

American Nurse

A collaboration between nurses at a hospital in New Jersey and nurses at a hospital in Germany worked to establish a Magnet council, develop a professional practice model, and create other strategies for improvement. Tour of Klinikum’s evidence-based geriatric unit.