Study Finds Disparities in Pain Treatment
A study from nurse researchers at the University of Pennsylvania school of nursing has found that while pain is undertreated in general in the United States, low-income and minority patients are even less likely to receive adequate pain treatment. This result holds up across virtually all healthcare settings. Minority patients are more likely to have dangerous jobs and often suffer more severe pain and physical impairments than non-minority patients, according to this article on Nurse.com. Poor and minority patients often...
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Study: 55% of Nurses Are Overweight or Obese
Job stress and long, irregular hours are two of the reasons that 55% of all nurses are obese, according to a study at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Over two thousand nurses were surveyed in the study. An article on ABCNews.com quotes medical professionals who say that nurses are just as susceptible to health problems as the rest of society, and that “Nurses need to understand the importance of taking care of themselves before patients or their families.”...
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The Stress of Dealing with Violent Patients
A registered nurse named Theresa Brown has written an article for The New York Times’ “Cases” feature about the strain of taking care of a patient who is violent. She had to deal with a tall, muscular 300-pound man who would act in a threatening way and then say things like “Look at you, standing there with that stupid look on your face.” He was scary, and it turned out that he had threatened to kill a nurse on another...
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Hand-off Communication Practice
For the last 15 years, the Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) has been evaluating medical errors and their causes and using this data to improve patient safety standards. What it has found is that hand-off communication has played a role in approximately 80 percent of “serious preventable adverse events,” also known as sentinel events, in healthcare. In 2006 the Joint Commission initiated National Patient Safety Goals, which changes emphasized goals on a yearly basis. These standards grew out of the recommendations...
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Maternity Nurse Remembers a 51-year Career
The Tucson Citizen has an interview with Guadelupe Montez, a maternity nurse who just retired after 51 years. She specialized in labor and delivery and antepartum testing. “To be carrying a baby and to have the baby out, it’s beautiful. It’s like a miracle to me,” Montez, 77, said. “I’ve always really loved babies, except they grow up too fast.” A lot has changed at Maricopa Medical Center over the past five decades, particularly the growing use of technology. It...
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