Last year I graduated from nursing school and began working in a specialized intensive care unit in a large academic hospital. During an orientation class, a nurse who has worked on the unit for six ...
In the old days of the neonatal intensive care unit, as young men or women entered the nursing profession, they could expect to do mostly physical “hands-on” patient care, which included bed baths, ...
As an intensive-care nurse, Barbara Grady knows the buzz of a bedside alarm like the ring of a telephone. When it sounds, she straightens a ventilator hose or fixes an IV line, often casing someone ...
t takes a partnership throughout the medical community to train a good nurse. That's a lesson learned from the Army's Critical Care Emergency Nurse Course being held for the first time in Madigan ...
The nursing industry can be a roller coaster ride of patients, from those who need minimal attention to patients who may end up in the critical care nursing unit for a life-threatening illness. "I ...
As part of a class called “Winter is coming” at the children’s hospital, nurses put on oxygen masks for 5 minutes as respiratory therapists adjusted the fit and pressure. Some ...
It is alleged Anuradha Bhupathiraju made a "stark and fatal error" which led to James Dwerryhouse's death while she was the ...