Nurse – 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 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 ArticleThe 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 ArticleHand Washing Technique: Steps to Break Away from Infection
Keeping clean and sterile is the fundamental principle for breaking the chain of infection. One of the most well-known and basic ways yet practiced is hand washing. It is considered as the most...
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 ArticleNursing Education – An Application of Andragogy of Learning
It is said that the effective teacher of adult students abides by a single motto—Learners first (Rogers, 2001). Teaching and learning aim for the attainment of cognitive (intellectual), affective...
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 ArticleNurse’s Role in Health Promotion
Health literacy is defined as “the degree of which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decision”...
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 ArticleBeing Well is Well Being
The term “wellness” has myriad of meanings, diverse in scope and significance—but all shares the core essence of having a sound state of being. For some, it is a state of well-being (Kozier et al.,...
View ArticleFlorence Nightingale – The Woman Behind the May 12 Celebration
– Florence Nightingale We all know who Florence Nightingale is. She was known to be ‘lady with the lamp,’ and the ‘mother of modern nursing’. She also developed the famous theory called ‘Environmental...
View ArticleUnderstanding Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory
You’ve probably heard of this super famous person in the psychology world – Sigmund Freud. But did you know that Freud is not a psychologist rather a physician, specifically a neurologist. In 1885,...
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 ArticleThe 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 ArticleInfection Control and Asepsis
RNspeak is a nursing community that offers free reliable resources of up-to-date news,nursing care plan,journal,pathophysiology,nursing exams and much more Microorganisms, whether we like it or not,...
View ArticleNursing Interventions -The Core of Nursing Process
Nursing intervention is the third step, and considered the core, of the nursing care process. Every nurse knows that this is the phase where the appropriate actions are selected and carried out to...
View ArticleAmerican Nurse Theorists and their Theories that Advanced Nursing Practice
Nursing has evolved over the years. Gone are the days when nurses are simply doctors’ assistants. Thanks to some strong and intelligent minds, nursing has been shaping into the highly specialized and...
View ArticleNurse Patient Interaction – The three Most important Structural Factors
Nurse patient interaction is all about effectively delivering health information and letting patients develop independence in self-care. It takes several variables in order to zero out factors that...
View Article5 Dangerous Diseases and Patient Assessment Signs that a Nurse Should Know
There are numerous dangerous patient assessment signs that a nurse should know by heart in order to save lives. But before identifying these symptoms, the nurse should know the underlying disease that...
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