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At Northeast Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, ED nurses are given training to prevent anticoagulant errors during orientation and during advanced certification training, says Wendi Deleon, RN, MS, assistant chief nursing officer and former director of the ED. Here are three ways to avoid problems:
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If your patient is a possible candidate for tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), past medical/surgical history, allergies, and medications need to be reviewed, says Joyce McIntyre, RN, MSN, clinical nurse specialist for the ED at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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Even with the possibility of a 4½-hour window for treatment of stroke patients, you should always act with a sense of urgency, stresses Stacey Claus, RN, BSN, CNRN, clinical instructor for the Department of Nursing at Cleveland Clinic.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
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When critical illness occurs, the primary goal is to assist patients to survive the acute threat to their lives. This goal is commonly achieved with 75%-90% of patients who are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) surviving to discharge.
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether use of a simple, easy-to-view, color-coded device could increase adherence to head-of-bed (HOB) elevation guidelines. The device consisted of a piece of glossy printer paper cut into a triangle.
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This study reports on the results of a single-hospital study of a quality improvement intervention to improve palliative care in the ICU.
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Tracking the utilization of intensive care unit (ICU) resources is important in informing clinicians of patterns of use and costs of care, especially as the proportion of patients aged 65 and older increases and ICU resources remain limited.