As nurses, we are trained to administer all types of blood products. Why do we give one type of blood over another? PRBCs, platelets, FFP, cryoprecipitate? What situations merit which type of blood administration?
As a medical professional, you are constantly under a great deal of stress! How do you manage this so that you can not only care for yourself but care for your patients as well?
Why is intra-abdominal pressure monitoring important? Learn how to set up intra-abdominal pressure monitoring and how to interpret your findings.
Worried about working as a night shift nurse? There are some serious perks! Advice from a night shift ICU RN about why she enjoys working the graveyard shift.
The plague of long ago still exists today. How do we, as nurses, know if our patient is one of the few individuals who has contracted it? Check out symptoms and treatment for this rare illness.
Wound care is an important part of nursing. Bedsores are a common problem seen among bedridden patients. How can we as nurses help our patients who have developed pressure sores?
Here's how you zero a pressure line in five easy steps! Quick and simple read on how and why zeroing is important.
It is important to be able to recognize different types of heart blocks when your patient develops them. What do the ECG strips look like? What will the patient feel like? Most importantly, what are you going to do about it?
Basic ECG interpretation is important to understand as a nurse. What does it mean when different waves do not look how they should? Here is a guide to common ECG abnormalities and what to look out for.
Tips on how to remove rings from a patient whose fingers are swollen. This can be a task that emergently needs to be done if a patient's fingers have decreased blood flow because of the ring. Try some of these easy tricks and see if they work!
