The Critical Role of Critical Care Nurses: Dr. Dina Hewett Joins The Nurse Keith Show (Ep. 514)
In the fast-paced, high-stakes world of critical care, nurses are the calm in the chaos—and no one understands that better than Dr. Dina Hewett.
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ENA Launches New Trauma Nursing Advanced Course
When nurses have in-depth knowledge to manage complex trauma cases and can anticipate injury patterns with the appropriate interventions, they are mor…
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Holy Cross Health Empowers Nurses with Cutting-Edge Cancer Therapy: Bispecific Antibodies Now Offered to Enhance Patient Outcomes
Holy Cross Health is raising the bar in cancer care by introducing bispecific antibody therapy—a groundbreaking treatment now offered through the Mich…
Businesses Drag Their Feet on Narcan, But Overdoses Won’t Wait
After years of devastating increases in overdoses across the U.S., some good news finally emerged late last year. Between August 2023 and August 2024, overdo…
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Better Nurse Staffing Linked to Fewer C-Sections
New research published in the <...
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CA Clarifies Role of CRNA’s Amid Scope-of-Practice Debate
California’s Department of Public Health has issued a letter clarifying the role of certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) in response to recent controversies regarding their scope of practice in the state. The letter emphasizes that CRNAs can administer anesthesia as
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Nurse Jackie Revival: A Nurse’s Insightful Perspective – Part 3: The System
You can’t make a TV show about a nurse without tackling the healthcare system. The system is nurses, and nurses are the system. They are one. Like tragically conjoined twins fused at a most unfortunate spot, it is impossible to
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Nurse Jackie Revival: A Nurse’s Insightful Perspective – Part 2: The Job
When I rewatch episodes of Nurse Jackie as a now practicing emergency room RN, I laugh. A lot. ER doctors performing open abdominal surgeries in Manolo Blahniks? No. I mean, I’ve never practiced in NYC, so maybe the culture is different
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Nurse Jackie Revival: A Nurse’s Insightful Perspective – Part 1: Jackie
Jackie’s back. Love or hate her, Nurse Jackie is being rebooted on Amazon Prime this year, with star Edie Falco to return. Join me, a practicing ER nurse, for a look back on the original series and its approach to
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Just Released: AACN Standards for Adult Critical Care Nurse Staffing
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has published AACN Standards for Appropriate Staffing in Adult Critical Care, the specialty’s first action-oriented staffing standards. Appropriate staffing has long been one of the “AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work
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