Nursing Now, a three-year global campaign (2018-2020), aims to improve health by raising the profile and status of nursing worldwide. Run in collaboration with the World Health Organisation and the International Council of Nurses, Nursing Now seeks to empower nurses to take their place at the heart of tackling 21st Century health challenges and maximise […]
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Half my patients died. They died from one disease, but so many different deaths. After a decade of honing my ability to quickly determine “sick or not sick” and allocating time and resources accordingly, I learned that when managing a ward of patients with Ebola, clinical appearance did not always predict survival. Layers of impermeable
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Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses The design of a facility/structure with its fixed and moveable components can have a significant impact on human performance, especially on the health and safety of employees, patients, and families.6 In a review of more than 600 articles, researchers found that there was a link between
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Concentrations of antibiotics found in some of the world’s rivers exceed ‘safe’ levels by up to 300 times, the first ever global study has discovered. Researchers looked for 14 commonly used antibiotics in rivers in 72 countries across six continents and found antibiotics at 65% of the sites monitored. Read more here.
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As Australia remains in the grip of a severe flu season, a new vaccine may be able to take on two deadly respiratory diseases at once. Flu season started early in 2019 – and with devastating effect, with as many people diagnosed so far this year as in all of 2018. Australia has also reached another unwanted
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New findings highlight the urgent need to reduce contamination risk through standardised, aseptic non-touch technique A new clinician poll conducted by Nancy Moureau, RN, PhD, CRNI, CPUI, VA-BC, has found that relatively few healthcare facilities have established a standardised process for maintaining proper aseptic non-touch technique during ultrasound-guided peripheral IV (UGPIV) insertion. The findings have
