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A Nurse's Story, All Services, American Heart Association, Article, Career Builder, Featured This Month, ICU/ER Track, Maternal Child Health, New Grad Maternal Child Program, New Graduates of Nursing, NRP Skills, Nursing Advocacy, Orange County, San Diego
Nurses Eat their Young
Lateral violence is a form of nurse bullying For instance, lateral violence occurs when another nurse deliberately instills harmful behavior in the workplace to another employee. Most noteworthy, nurse to nurse bullying remains extremely common in various hospitals and healthcare facilities. Nursing remains one of greatest occupations at risk for lateral violence. As a matter of fact, roughly 44% to 85% of nurses reported being victims of bullying (Christie and Jones, 2014). Most notably, 93% of nurses reported witnessing lateral violence in the workplace. In most cases, the experienced nurse served as the perpetrator, whereas the New Grad and Student Nurse served the role of the victim (Jacobs & Kyzer,…
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AHA ACLS, AHA BLS, AHA NRP, AHA PALS, ICU/ER Track, Labor and Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care NICU, NRP Skills, Nursing Advocacy, Orange County, San Diego
Klebsiella pneumoniae and Healthcare Acquired Infections
Do you know why Healthcare Acquired Infections are on the rise? One reason is Klebsiella pneumoniae. Actually, Klebsiella pneumoniae CAN be a friendly bacterium, especially to our environment and GI tract; but nurses don’t turn your back! These little capsule wearing, sticky suckers can cause serious havoc to the fragile lungs. To put it briefly, Klebsiella pneumoniae can be an opportunistic bacterium. In fact, it can cause a dangerous form of bacterial pneumonia in children, the elderly and immunocompromised individuals. Contact with feces allows people to serve as reservoirs and transmit the bacteria from person to person. Under those circumstances, these individuals can become severely ill or die from complications.…
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Basic EKG Interpretation
Power Your Profession Basic EKG Interpretation Our Basic EKG certification may be taken individually or with the 5-Finger Discount Topics Covered Anatomy & Physiology of the Heart Review of the conduction system and how it correlates to EKG wave patterns as well as pharmacology and cardiac terminology. Recognizing Wave Abnormalities Recognition of abnormalities in P, QRS, and T waves; Including ST segment irregularities and PR, QRS, and QT interval measurements. Arrhythmia Interpretation Interpretation of Sinus, Atrial, Junctional, and Ventricular rhythms, including bundle branch blocks, paced rhythms and more. ACS on a 12 Lead & More Identification of acute coronary syndromes on a 12 Lead EKG (STEMI & non STEMI) such…
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Trauma Assessment to the 4th Power
For the Nurse in ER and ICU Contact Hours: 20 Price: $38
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Rapid Responder to the 4th Power
For the Nurse in ER and ICU Contact Hours: 20 Price: $38
