How to become a Developmental Disability Nurse
It’s only a month away from nursing school graduation and Astrid is excited to finally reap the fruits of her labor, she is very excited to finally become a nurse,...
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Nursing How To’s: NGT Irrigation
Liezl, a first year nursing student, is studying for their lessons on Monday. While browsing through her nursing book, she finds a picture of a patient with a tube hanging...
How to Use a Metered Dose Inhaler
It’s Abbie’s first week of being exposed in the clinical area and being eager to learn, she makes it a point to always observe and learn from the procedures the...
Nursing How To’s: Basic Venipuncture
Gina has always been amazed at how some nurses expertly hit a vein and/or draw blood. For her, it looks really cool that most of them get it done at...
Nursing How To’s: Central Line Catheter Dressing Change
A central venous catheter is a tube that goes into a vein in the patient’s chest. It helps carry nutrients and medicine into the body as well as is used...
Nursing How To’s: Tracheostomy Care and Suctioning
Lydia was reading the patient’s chart, taking down notes needed for case discussion. She browses the physician’s order sheer to check if there are new orders when she comes about...
Nursing How To’s: Performing an Electrocardiogram
Karen, along with her classmates, watches as the staff nurse places electrodes of different colors expertly on the patient’s chest. It has always amazed her how nurses do it easily,...
Digestible Sensors
Digestible sensors that can report medication adherence and vital signs have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This ingestible sensor, which looks like a regular pill,...
Eye Care for Intensive Care Patients
Waida, in her aim of getting good grades, is spending her Saturday night studying for next week’s discussion about eye care. She’s scanning through an article when she reads that...
Lifting Safety: Preventing back injuries when lifting patients
You know you’re a nurse when you have complained of having an aching back at least once in your career. Nursing personnel, compared to other professions are among the highest...
