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The nurse-family partnership program focuses on first-time mothers because the first pregnancy offers the best chance to promote healthy behaviors, to building a bond between mothers and babies, and to teach the families positive child-rearing techniques, says Nancy Kehiayan, MS, RN, APRN-BC, nursing director at the NFP national service office.
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Jane McKinley, RN, BSN, loves her job because she knows she's helping vulnerable first-time mothers have a healthy first pregnancy and learn to be a good parent.
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Karen Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, remembers the stick as if it happened in slow-motion, the details still clear to her 12 years later.
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Do you consider work areas as part of your "office?" If you do, you will almost certainly spot some unidentified Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violations.
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A resident at an assisted living facility had significant issues with constipation and bowel issues for which she was prescribed certain medications. The resident claimed that the nursing facility did not administer the medication as required by her physician and that she began showing signs of an obstruction after one week of failing to have a bowel movement. Enemas and other treatments were administered by nurses at the facility, but ultimately she was taken to the emergency room with a ruptured colon.
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Every week, in the United States, between 8% and 13% of emergency department nurses are victims of physical violence, according to a new study released by the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) in Des Plaines, IL.
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Retaliatory firing of a risk manager for reporting regulatory infractions is outrageous but not unheard of, says Dan Groszkruger, JD, MPH, CPHRM, DFASHRM, risk manager at Stanford (CA) University Medical Center and a board member of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) in Chicago.