The SBAR Method – Patient Assessment and Nurse-Physician Encounters
There will always come a time when you have to relay critical patient information to an attending physician. Am I hearing pounding heart sounds? You don’t have to worry, because you will be...
View ArticleCare for Patient with Mechanical Ventilator
Patients who are critically ill and need oxygen support are usually attached to mechanical ventilator. That’s why, nurses who are in the assigned in the intensive or critical unit should be competent...
View ArticleNurse – As the Change Agent
Being a change agent is one of the major roles of the nurse in the health care system. The nurse takes effect on the transformations of different lives, for both ill and well, through the various...
View ArticleCommon Use Nursing Abbreviations & Medical Terminologies List 2
One essential part of nursing practice is accurate record keeping. Documentation is equally important as communicating by phone when relaying information to other healthcare professionals.This list of...
View ArticleADPIE (Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Intervention, Evaluation) Charting...
Did you know that improper documentations can cause errors in the health care settings that could led to patient having adverse reactions or worst death? Nurse instructors always stress out how...
View ArticleInfection Control and Asepsis
Microorganisms, whether we like it or not, are present everywhere even on areas we can’t set our eyes upon. It is present in the water we drink, in the things we use even in our body surfaces, in our...
View ArticleNursing Documentation and Reporting: Do’s and Don’ts
Nursing documentation is responsible for keeping the legal record of the patient, which is known as the patient’s chart, regarding his personal information and care. On the other hand, nursing...
View ArticleNurse – Roles and Functions
A nurse is a professional who is focused in health related issues and views man as a whole being. The most important tool in providing nursing care is through utilization of the nursing process. In...
View ArticleFDAR Charting – How Nurses Do It
Focus charting or simply termed as F-DAR is a kind of documentation utilizing the nursing process and involves the four steps: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. It is a systematic...
View ArticleIs Health Teaching a Must?
Way back our nursing student days; I can still recall how well-known the word “health teaching” was. Every time we have our hospital duty, we always write health teachings given with emphasis on:...
View ArticleNursing Process
Nursing process is a scientific process which is a foundation, the essential tool, and the enduring skill that has characterized nursing from the beginning of the profession. It has changed and evolved...
View ArticleWhat is (NCP) Nursing Care Plan?
The third phase of the nursing process is planning. It is when problems are prioritized, goals and desired outcomes are formulated, nursing interventions are prepared properly, and it is also when...
View ArticlePhysical Assessment Components
The purpose of physical assessment is to acquire physical and mental information on the patient. This information will assist the nurse to determine proper diagnoses, patient care, to supplement,...
View ArticleWhat is a Nursing Theory?
Warning: You might be overwhelmed by this topic. It might cause epistaxis to some but don’t get me wrong, theoretical foundations in nursing was taught to us during our freshmen year. Thus, it is only...
View ArticleLevine’s Four Conservation Principles in the Bio-Behavioral Pain Management
Myra Estrin Levine’s “The Four Conservation Principles of Nursing”. The four major assertions of this model state that nursing intervention is based on the conservation of energy, structural integrity,...
View ArticleNurses Code of Ethics
As a service-oriented profession, nursing should have a foundation of ethical principles in delivering nursing care to clients throughout the lifespan. As a profession of nursing evolved, more and more...
View ArticleCharting for Nurses
The Nursing profession involves legalities when it comes to caring clients in all groups. These legal issues can only straighten when there is accurate documentation. The common term used in the field...
View ArticleLydia Hall’s Nursing Theory- Core, Care and Cure Model for Geriatric Care
Lydia Hall’s nursing theory—Core, Care and Cure Model—is client-centered (Anonuevo et al., 2000). Hall’s metaparadigm centers on the following: on person as the Core, body as the Care and disease is...
View ArticlePhysical Assessment – Head to Toe
Physical Assessment is the subjective and objective data obtained to determine the patient’s state of wellness or illness, physical and health status, limitations, assets and liabilities. Physical...
View ArticleCommon Use Nursing Abbreviations and Medical Terminologies List 1
In the healthcare industry, documentation is very important. Medical records must be written legibly and easily understood by those who access them. A record is a valuable source of data used by health...
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