What are the nursing interventions you should perform when a patient has a pneumothorax? Look at common symptoms, interventions, and treatment that you need to perform when this happens.
As many as 10 million people currently live with Parkinson's Disease. Become a better nurse by learning about its cause, symptoms, and treatments.
Locked-in syndrome is a rare neurological condition in which patients have no voluntary muscle movement with exception of their eyes. Patients are awake and conscious, but do not have the ability to move (with exception of moving their eyes) including swallowing, speaking, or any active range of motion.
Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is the "flesh-eating" bacteria that you sometimes hear about in the news. How do people contract this horrible and sometimes fatal infection? Is it just pure, bad luck? How many patients die every year from this infection? Check out this quick explanation from an ICU RN.
Black widows are common spiders found throughout the United States and the world. How fatal is their bite? Learn about symptoms and treatment of a black widow spider bite.
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.
It is important to know the differences between ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes. What nursing interventions would you perform for these and how would they vary? Learn about these strokes from an ICU RN.
A ventilation-perfusion scan (commonly known as a VQ scan) is a procedure performed in interventional radiology. It examines air flow and perfusion from the lungs.
Have you cared for a patient with toxic megacolon before? This is a life threatening condition that requires quick interventions to care for these patients. Learn about toxic megacolon and the nursing interventions you'll perform.
You'll never guess what the top ten health questions googled this year were! They definitely weren't the obvious questions that I would've thought of.
