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16 Oct, 2013

Certified Nursing Assistants: Who are they?

How to become a CNA and what to expect

If you find this job appealing and that this is the job that you envision yourself to be part of in the next couple of years, then, what are you waiting for? Here are some pointers on how to become a CNA. First on the list is you need to enroll in a college, hospital, or Red Cross office offering a Certificate Program in Nursing Assistance. But before doing such, in some institutions it is required and needed that you take up the some prerequisites such as CPR, First Aid, Medical Terminology and Anatomy and Physiology.

NCLEX & CGFNS

14 Oct, 2013

What You Need To Know About the NCLEX

NCLEX is not just any exam. It isn’t like those exams you take just for the sake of grades. By taking the NCLEX, you are actually finally applying everything that you have learned in your four years in nursing school. Here, you will give justice to all your sleepless nights and all other sacrifices. By passing the NCLEX, you do not only show that you are capable of becoming a good nurse, it also shows that you are credible and able enough to be trusted with lives and care for people from all walks of life.

Nursing News & Blog

8 Oct, 2013

The Nurse’s Role in Choosing the Right Birth Control Measures

In the pursuit of decreasing abortions, sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies, the number of use of birth control methods in the society have risen throughout the years. As nurses,...

Nursing News & Blog

3 Oct, 2013

Safety for Pediatric Patients

Pediatric nursing, which is also known as child health nursing is a nursing specialty focused on caring for babies, children and adolescents. Aside from achieving and maintaining a most favorable...

Perioperative Nursing

3 Oct, 2013

Reduction Mammoplasty

Reduction Mammoplasty Procedure Overview

1. The incisions are marked, usually circumscribing the areola, which is usually left attached to underlying tissue as a pedicle graft, or removed when indicated.
2. Flaps are developed that excise a wedge of excessive skin and adipose tissue inferiorly.
3. A Freeman areolar marker may be used.
4. The breast is reconstructed by approximating the medial and lateral breast tissue with skin flaps inferior to the nipple site, and transversely in the inframammary fold, which creates an inverted T.
5. A bulky dressing is applied and a surgical bra may be used.

Nursing News & Blog

2 Oct, 2013

Routine Checkups for Nurses

Nurses always offer good advice when it comes to educating patients about healthy living and various ways to be responsible of their needs, but when it comes to our own,...

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone (SIADH)

Critical Care and Emergency Nursing

28 Sep, 2013

Syndrome Of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone (SIADH)

Syndrome Of Inappropriate Antidiuretic Hormone

Is a condition that results from failure in the negative feedback mechanism that regulates inhibition and secretion of ADH. It produces excess ADH, resulting hypothermia and hypoosmolality of serum. The kidneys respond by reabsorbing water in the tubules and excreting sodium; thus the patient becomes severely water intoxicated. SIADH is most commonly caused by ectopic production of ADH by malignant tumors. It can be result of CNS disorders, such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, meningitis, brain tumors, and head trauma. Pulmonary-related conditions, such as pneumonia, and positive pressure ventilation can cause SIADH. Pharmacologic agents such as general anesthetics, thiazine diuretics, oral hypoglycemics, chemotherapeutic agents, and analgesics are also associated with SIADH release.

Critical Care and Emergency Nursing

20 Sep, 2013

Cardiomyopathy

Cardiomyopathy is a dysfunction of cardiac muscle that can be associated with coronary artery disease, hypertension, cardiotoxic agents, valvular disorders, and vascular or pulmonary diseases. Cardiomyopathies are classified into three groups by etiology and the abnormal physiology of the left ventricle.

Aortic Dissection

Aortic dissection involves a tear in the medical layer of the aortic wall, causing blood to extravasate into the media and thus compromising blood flow to the brain, heart, and other organs. Usually the causative factor is an underlying disease of the media. Dissection can be classified by the sites involved:

1. DeBakey type I – ascending aorta beyond arch.
2. DeBakey type II – ascending aorta.
3. DeBakey type III – descending aorta.

Cardiac Tamponade

Cardiac tamponade is the accumulation of excess fluid within the pericardial space, resulting in impaired cardiac filling, reduction in stroke volume, and epicardial coronary artery compression with resultant myocardial ischemia. Clinical sings of cardiac tamponade depends on the rapidity of the fluid accumulation and on the fluid volume.

Risk factors include recent cardiac trauma such as open trauma to the thorax (gunshot wounds and stabs), closed trauma to the thorax (impact of the chest on a steering wheel during a motor vehicle accident), cardiac surgery, and iatrogenic causes (cardiac catheterization or pacemaker electrode perforation).

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