What are the causes and treatment of hyperkalemia (a high potassium level)? What should we, as nurses, be looking out for when treating these patients?
So this is my personal opinion on nights...not necessarily the absolute answer. Everyone is different in how their bodies react to being turned upside down from a sleeping perspective.
Do you remember what a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) procedure is? Why do patients need to have this performed? Does it really change patient outcomes? Check out this quick summary from an ICU RN.
I have worked the night shift for the past five years now! It has sometimes been a struggle to figure out how to flip back and forth from days to nights. Do I stay up late the night before my shift and sleep in? Do I take a nap right before my shift? Check out these tips to find out the best sleeping pattern for you.
Who benefits from having hospice involved in their care? Hospice focuses on pain relief and comfort during the final phases of a patient's life. Is this a type of nursing you are interested in? In the ICU we do short-term hospice care for terminal patients. It takes a special type of nurse to help families through these difficult times.
Discover Caregivers focuses on connecting caregivers with people in need of additional assistance. It is completely FREE for caregivers to create a profile and be found by those searching for care. Both caregivers and care seekers benefit a great deal from using this resource!
Suprapubic catheters are not a tube that I see very often in the hospital. How exactly do you care for one? Are they very different from a urethral catheter? Here is a simple summary on the indications and care of a suprapubic catheter.
There is such a variety of specialties within nursing. Is being a medical or surgical pediatric nurse the job for you? Some feel that it is too hard considering that they have kids the same ages as their patients. Others feel they can relate better to the patients because they have kids those ages. What do you think about this specialty?
Each type of nursing comes with different types of challenges. As an ICU nurse, we RARELY see patients discharged from the hospital. They are usually sent to a step down floor to a general floor and then home. We miss the last steps. What is rewarding about your nursing position? This video talks about the shows the perks of being an RN in a children's hospital ER. There is a great amount of satisfaction that comes from being a pediatric nurse.
This will be the best two minutes you take out of your day! Take a peek at these funny nursing e-cards. I don't know that most people would think they were funny, but we (as nurses) definitely have a "different" sense of humor. "So you admittedly smoke a pack a day and drink heavily, but haven't taken your $4 med for 3 months because you 'can't afford it.' Hmm."
