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By: Megan Doble, MSN, RN, CRNP, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC Sep 14 2017
Sepsis: What nurses need to know Reviewed and updated by Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C: April 22, 2024Sepsis is a life-threatening, medical emergency affecting approximately one million persons annually in the United States (NIH, 2023). Patients hospitalized with sepsis...
By: Megan Doble, MSN, RN, CRNP, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC Sep 8 2017
Top 10 Things Advanced Practice Nurses Need to Know about the Updated Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) is the leading organization responsible for educating healthcare professionals on the most current scientific evidence on the timely and appropriate treatment of sepsis. This ultimately allows us to positively...
By: Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN Aug 31 2017
Sepsis: Learning from the past to improve patient outcomes As many of you know, I am a practicing acute care/critical care nurse practitioner in a hospital in the Philadelphia area. Recently I was called to a rapid response on a medical floor. The patient was an elderly gentleman who was admitted for a...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Jun 23 2017
Zika in 2017 The majority of healthcare providers in the United States (US) first became familiar with Zika virus in early 2016 when it gained national attention following a large Zika virus outbreak in Brazil in 2015. With this outbreak, a concurrent increase...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN May 25 2017
Systemic Vascular Resistance Reviewed and updated by Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP: May 31, 2024 In a previous blog post, we discussed preload and afterload. You may recall, preload is the amount of ventricular stretch at the end of diastole. Afterload is the pressure...
By: Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Apr 9 2017
Transmission-based isolation precautions for common pathogens Reviewed and updated by Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C: March 12, 2024 As a follow-up to our previous post on isolation guidelines, here is a list of transmission-based precautions recommended for common pathogens. Standard...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Mar 20 2017
GI Nurses & Associates Week 2017 GI Nurses & Associates Week is March 20-24, 2017! We wish those of you in this specialty a wonderful week, and we thank you for compassion and dedication. Please enjoy the content below, specially selected to help you in your practice. For...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 17 2017
Causes of Elevated Lactate – Not Just a Marker for Sepsis and Septic Shock Reviewed and updated by Robin Haskell, MSN, RN, CRNP: May 31, 2024As nurses working at the bedside, most of us are familiar with the common lab test, lactate. We know that when cells become hypoxic, lactate levels increase. Unfortunately, an...
By: Myrna B. Schnur, MSN, RN Mar 11 2017
Laboratory signs of sepsis [Infographic] Reviewed and updated by Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C: March 4, 2024 Sepsis and septic shock are serious life-threatening responses to an infection that impacts millions of patients worldwide. Early identification and management of...
By: Kim Fryling-Resare Mar 3 2017
March is a great month to introduce you to LiveWiseMS.org! March is Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Awareness Month and a great opportunity to spread the word about multiple sclerosis, a chronic, unpredictable autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS), as well as to introduce you to a new patient...
By: Jan 31 2017
World Cancer Day and How Nurses Can Help February 4th is World Cancer Day, and the theme for the day between 2016 and 2018 is “We can. I can.” Here, at Lippincott Nursingcenter, we know there are a number of ways nurses can help bring awareness to this day, along with ways...
By: Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN Dec 13 2016
Cardiac Output and Cardiac Index – What's the Difference? Reviewed and updated by Lisa Bonsall, MSN, RN, CRNP, CCRN: February 13, 2024 Mastering hemodynamics can be tricky, but the first step is understanding the terminology. Let’s look at cardiac output and cardiac index – how to calculate...
By: Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C Oct 11 2016
Breath Sounds: What Do They Mean? Reviewed and updated by Megan Doble, DNP, CRNP, FNP-C, AGACNP-C: March 4, 2024 Below are the results of a nursing quiz about lung auscultation. This revealed a need for clarification of common adventitious lung sounds and the commonly associated...
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