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Ideas for "Get Well" Gifts for a Man in ICU
An intensive care unit in a hospital is for patients who need extra help and monitoring during the healing process. Men who are in intensive care units usually spend most of their time in bed, which...
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Proper Lifting Techniques for Nurses
Nurses are responsible for lifting and repositioning patients as a normal part of their shift. For this reason, they are in danger of hurting their backs if they do not use proper lifting techniques...
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Helpful Nursing Skills
Becoming a nurse is not a decision that should be taken lightly. There are many skills that must be learned to be an effective nurse, such as how to make an occupied bed, how to start an intravenous...
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How to Transport a Patient in a Wheelchair
Even when your patient does not require your assistance to get into a wheelchair, your skill and foreknowledge will ensure smooth, accident-free transportation. If your patient needs assistance getting...
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How to Chart Skin Color in Black Patients
It takes experience to learn how to assess the skin of a dark-skinned patient. Many times the changes in a dark skinned patient's color will be far more subtle than in a lighter-skinned patient. For...
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Telemetry Nursing Duties
All nurses must fulfill certain responsibilities in patient care, but specialties such as telemetry nursing require additional knowledge. Telemetry nursing deals with patients in a critical...
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How to Read Lab Tests in Dehydration
Dehydration is a complex and challenging syndrome to diagnose. It can be particularly debilitating even at mild levels if it is not caught in time. Some medication such as water pills can cause fluid...
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Tips for Easier Days for an RN
A day in the life of a registered nurse is not an easy one; experience is the key to making the days go a little smoother. Fortunately, there are nurses out there who are willing to share their tips of...
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Decision Making Styles in Nursing
Nursing managers have managerial styles, but they also have decision styles that effect the way their units are run. In 1973, the researchers Vroom and Yetton came up with a continuum of...
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How to Enhance Communication Skills Between Nurses
Communication between nurses is essential for the proper functioning of a nursing unit. It is important that nurses can talk to each other to ask questions about patients, share opinions or get help....
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How to Measure Strokes
There are many assessment tools for measuring strokes, but none are as well known as the National Institute of Health Stroke Scale. It is a quick way of measuring the deficits that a stroke has created...
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What Is the Difference Between a CCU & ICU?
Hospitals can be intimidating, and the alphabet soup of specialized departments can be especially confusing. Two of the areas treating the most critically ill patients are the ICU and CCU. The ICU, or...
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Importance of Team Work in Nursing
A nurse is only as good as the team around her, and a nurse who cannot ask questions of her co-workers is extremely hampered. Nursing is so complex it must be discussed and talked about, shared and...
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How to Be a Good Preceptor for Nursing Students
Leader, mentor, expert and teacher are a few words to describe the role of a nurse preceptor. New nurses and student nurses are anxious yet eager to learn new information and skills in a very...
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Patient Transfer Technique Procedures
Patients in health care facilities often require assistance with transferring in and out of bed and from one surface to another. Health care workers are at risk of injury if proper body mechanics are...
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How to See Where the Shoulder Ends
The end of the shoulder is known as the acromium. It's a triangular protuberance of the scapula that forms a joint with the clavicle or collar bone. Various muscles and ligaments attach here to help...
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How to Measure & Calculate Creatinine Clearance
Creatinine clearance is a way for doctors to check if the kidneys are working properly. Some medications are processed out of the body by the kidneys. If the kidneys are not working as they should, the...
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How to Report Patient Falls
Patient safety is important in most health care facilities. Specific policies and procedures exist to prevent falls and other injuries. Patients are at risk of falling because they are weak, unable to...
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How to Write a Nursing Assessment & Diagnosis
One aspect of a nurse's job is to assess a patient's condition, develop a nursing diagnosis and establish a care plan. The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, or NANDA, defines a nursing...
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Contraindications for PICC Placement
A peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line is a minimally invasive way to deliver medications to the central venous blood system, usually inserted at the bedside by a specially trained nurse....
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