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The Nurse’s Temptation to Fill in the Patient Handoff Narrative
The limitations of handoff report In bedside nursing, the nurse enters the story of the patient’s life at the point where the handoff report ends. “Pt is an 8 mo old female, history of hypoxic ischemic...
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What the Patient Knew: Communication and Patient Safety
Anticipating emergencies. by rosmary/via Flickr At the start of every shift after receiving report, I take a moment to consider what emergencies I might anticipate for my particular patient in our...
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Who’s Listening to Hospitalized Patients with Hearing Impairment?
In my early years in nursing, attention to patients’ hearing deficits was a big deal. It was assumed that we couldn’t properly care for someone if that person couldn’t hear us. Every admission...
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The Baby with Tetralogy of Flow
It is a good day so far—none of the 16 critically ill babies in the neonatal intensive care unit has coded or died. So far, the shrill electronic alarms for dying babies have been silent. As the...
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The Particular Pain and Challenge of Educating Patients During a Worldwide...
Working in a rural community access hospital during the pandemic has been a struggle. Here as in many areas of the U.S., many in the surrounding community have not accepted the the existence of a virus...
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A Call for a More Balanced Approach to Family Presence During a Public Health...
What would you want for your family? Nine years ago, AJN published a Viewpoint article asserting the essential role of family caregivers. The article featured an elderly woman recuperating in a...
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Primary Nursing of Medically Complex Children in the ICU Increases Parental...
Differing views about quality of life. Photo by Pat Smith/Pexels As medical care has become increasingly advanced in its ability to prolong life in the face of serious, chronic illness, it has also...
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