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Optimal Allocation of Nursing Resources
2020 22 Jan
In today’s pressing environment, it is not always easy to achieve generally accepted evidence-based allocation of nursing resources. While delivering higher quality of care at a lower price is seen as a key goal, proper investing in nurse staff persists as a challenge. The new report (Begley, Cipriano, Nelson 2020) published by the Healthcare... Read more
Nurses’ Sleep Deprivation Impacts Patient Outcomes
2019 12 Dec
Before work days, nurses sleep 83 minutes fewer than on their days off, which negatively impacts patient safety and care. According to a new study (Witkoski Stimpfel et al. 2019) published in Sleep Health , the journal of the National Sleep Foundation (USA), nurses get under 7 hours of sleep prior to their shifts. You may also like:... Read more
Cutting Low-Yield Imaging Through Collaboration
2019 30 Oct
Radiology care means ensuring optimal use of imaging for diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Needless to say, radiologists play an important role in helping referring physicians avoid ordering imaging tests that provide not much diagnostic value – and unnecessarily expose patients to radiation. That's certainly the main reason behind the American... Read more
ICEN 2019 - 17th International Conference for Emergency Nurses
2019 16 Oct
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Nurses and Cutting-Edge Technology
2019 26 Aug
Summary: Modern nursing is a multi-layered field of work with increasing work density and complexity, which requires a high level of competence, resilience and commitment from the nursing staff. In numerous professional situations, nursing professionals are required to have a high degree of spontaneous problem solving, abstraction skills... Read more
Bright spots: music in the ICU
2018 19 Jun
The intensive care unit (ICU) is a rather obscure place for many people. It is a place where you are exposed to the fragility of existence, where you have to deal with the fine line between life and death. Every day I desperately try to illuminate this dark place, with a conversation, with a joke, with trying to facilitate the patients’ or families’... Read more