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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 NRP, Article, BabyFriendly(tm) Policy, Breastfeeding Education, Fetal Heart Monitoring, Labor and Delivery, Labor Delivery Track for New Grad RN's, Maternal Child Health, Neonatal Intensive Care NICU, New Grad Maternal Child Program, New Graduates of Nursing, NICU Track for New Grad RN's, Nursing Advocacy, Obstetric Track
Baby-Friendly Hospital
World Breastfeeding Week is around the corner, August 1-7, 2016! If your dream job is working with moms and babies all day long, your ears might e screaming in pain from hearing about the BabyFriendly Hospital Initiative. A little known fact is that in California, BabyFriendly training is also called Birth&Beyond approved. That’s the state program that distributes the funding and training materials across the state. Want to get that Postpartum job? Let’s jump right in! What is BabyFriendly(tm)? Why is BFHI important for getting a job in postpartum, for New Grads and Transition Nurses? How you can become BFHI certified? The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) is a global program sponsored…
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To Hat or Not to Hat
If you have ever worked with newborn infants, they ALWAYS have those little blue and pink stocking caps. When you see newborn infants on TV or in magazines they always have those stocking caps on. All of use assumed that keeps the baby warm because heat is lost through the head. We never questioned this practice and “God forbid”, if you don’t have a stocking cap on your newborn in the hospital setting, you were counseled. You would be a wealthy person if you were the manufacture of those “little blue and pink stocking caps.” Imagine how many of those caps are sold to the hospital’s maternal-child care departments. Newborns…
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Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation
Power Your Profession Fundamentals of Mechanical Ventilation Our Mech. Vent certification may be taken individually or with the 5-Finger Discount Topics Covered Anatomy & Physiology of the Lungs Review of cardiopulmonary ventilation, in particular we will discuss oxygen radicals and oxy-hemoglobin dissociation. Ventilator Settings & Modes RR, VT, PEEP and FIO2 settings in relation to a ventilator. In addition, topics covered include AC, SIMV and pressure support ventilator modes. Scope of Practice and Nursing Understand your role with mechanical ventilation. Learn how you can assist the interdisciplinary team safely and without crossing boundaries. Ventilator Complications Learn how to prevent or respond to ventilator associated pneumonia, Auto-PEEP, Barotrauma, breath staking and…
