Emergency nurses are ideally placed to highlight the importance of screening, and treatment, to the public. For emergency nurses to impart information to patients it is essential they have accurate, evidence-based knowledge. This study aims to determine if emergency nurses' knowledge of osteoporosis...
The best time to take a pregnancy test is a week after your missed period. This time is when the results will be more accurate. If you’re wondering how soon or how early you can take a pregnancy test, you’re not alone—it’s common to want those results as soon as possible. You...
watching the blue flames light up the room like a frightening storm, and I am still tired and cold, afraid of the night and the dark and the autumn dread, afraid because the weeping from over the seas is still in my ears and that man in the rubble is still in my head and the litt...
Palliative care doesn't mean giving up your regular doctors or treatments or hope for remission or a cure. It may be a good option if you have a serious condition that has led to multiple hospitalizations or emergency room visits during the previous year. ...
C. talking to doctors and nurses D. getting some training and experience 3. Why was Laura Kennan in hospital? [ ] A. She had lost consciousness while driving. B. She had swallowed something and almost died.C. She had to have an emergency operation. D. She had been injured in a road...
And our emergency room is full of patients needing ICUs.” HOW DOES IT AFFECT STAFF? They are increasingly burning out. This week in the ICUs of South Florida’s Memorial Healthcare System, staff were at one point caring for 107 COVID-19 patients who were the “sickest of the sick,”...
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“Our lives are all changing in ways that were unimaginable just a week ago.” Curtains Close on Broadway Broadway theaters shuttered Thursday evening, March 12, as the coronavirus outbreak escalated in New York. Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency for the city and Governor Andre...
Then the nurses insisted I needed my mattress replacing, which was true as a pipe was broken (though the foam below is also pressure relieving, so it wasn’t an emergency). They wanted to do it the same or next day as my injection, but since there was no way I was going to be we...
” Terry Foster, a critical-care nurse and past president of the Emergency Nurses Association,told CNN. “It’s patients who don’t want to wait, or they act out or are very dramatic or violent. And sometimes our patients are fine, but their families will lash out at us and threaten u...