Blood Transfusion Complications

Posted by: Frances Quino, RN

Blood transfusions always come with various side effects and complications. The health team, especially the doctors and nurses should be responsible in educating the patients receiving blood transfusion regarding the reason of the transfusion, its benefits and risks involve and the expected outcomes during transfusions. It is also important that we obtain a signed consent [...]

Thermal Therapy

Posted by: Frances Quino, RN

For a long time, early medical interventions involve use of two energies – the hot and cold energy. Focusing on the hot energy, thermal therapy has been widely used for various medical cases in aide for better blood circulation and relaxation of the muscles. The heat felt from application the thermal therapy releases the stiffened [...]

Wound Healing

Posted by: Daisy Jane, RN, MN

Overview The human body has many methods of protecting itself from injury. When tissue injury occurs, the body stimulates inflammatory and immune responses and the process of wound healing would initiate almost immediately. A wound may be described as the disruption in the continuity of cells and once it occurs, the following will result: L [...]

Positioning Patients in Bed

Posted by: Daisy Jane, RN, MN

Problems of contractures and deformities can often be prevented by proper positioning of the patient. Regardless of the position selected it is essential that the patient maintains a correct body alignment while in bed and it is very important for the nurse to evaluate patient position during each contact throughout the shift. To achieve proper [...]

Nutrients Needed for Wound Healing

Posted by: Daisy Jane, RN, MN

Overview A fundamental part of wound healing is optimal nutrition supplementation.  Enumerated below are some nutrients necessary for speeding up the processes involve in wound healing. H – Have a dose of Vitamin C. This vitamin is necessary for the repair of a damaged tissue and it helps maintains the good integrity of membranes in [...]

Code of Ethics for Nurses

Posted by: Daisy Jane, RN, MN

Ethics originated from the Greeks with a word “ethos”. Ethos means moral duty in modern language. According to one reliable definition about ethics, it refers to a standard to examine and understand moral life. It simply focuses on how people regard what is right or wrong. Nurses have to encounter ethical issues almost every day [...]

Ethical Behavior

Posted by: Daisy Jane, RN, MN

Overview Ethics refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. It comes into play when we work, when we play, and at any time that we are interacting with others. Ethics is a set of [...]

Passive Range of Motion Exercises

Posted by: Daisy Jane, RN, MN

Range of Motion (ROM) exercises Range of motion exercises, also called ROM exercises, reduce stiffness, prevent deformities and help keep the joint flexible. These exercises can either be active or passive. When a person can perform the exercise himself or herself, active ROM is done. When a person needs someone to do the exercises for [...]

Respiratory Patterns

Posted by: Daisy Jane, RN, MN

Respiration Oxygen reaches the body cells and carbon dioxide is removed from the cells through respiration. Respiration involves two processes which is the external respiration and the internal respiration. The External respiration is the movement of air between the environment and the lungs while internal respiration is the movement of oxygen between the hemoglobin and [...]

Alignment and Pressure-Reducing Devices

Posted by: Daisy Jane, RN, MN

Importance of Proper Body Alignment Proper Body Alignment means that the joints, tendons, ligaments and muscles are in line with the pull of gravity. When the body is aligned properly sitting, standing or lying down carry no excessive strain. Patients who are immobile may experience disuse osteoporosis, disuse atrophy, contractures, reduced skin turgor and skin [...]