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New Evidence of Health Care Worker Fatigue and Burnout
May 14, 2013 - As a travel nurse, your main duty is to provide excellent patient care, but that care benefits both the patients and the nursing staff, who are increasingly overburdened. As patient loads increase, so does the evidence that they often cause health care workers to suffer from fatigue and burnout. And those symptoms can lead to bigger problems with morale and patient safety, experts say.Read more
May 14, 2013 - As a travel nurse, your main duty is to provide excellent patient care, but that care benefits both the patients and the nursing staff, who are increasingly overburdened. As patient loads increase, so does the evidence that they often cause health care workers to suffer from fatigue and burnout. And those symptoms can lead to bigger problems with morale and patient safety, experts say.Read more
Sentinel Event Alert: More Machines Triggering Alarm Fatigue
April 25, 2013- What started as a good idea for patient safety has become a risk to patient safety--the constant beeping of alarms and an overabundance of information transmitted by medical devices such as ventilators, blood pressure monitors and cardiac monitors. Nurses can become overwhelmed or desensitized, causing them to miss key changes in a patient’s condition. Now, The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert urging healthcare workers and their leaders to take a focused look at this issue known as alarm fatigue.Read more
April 25, 2013- What started as a good idea for patient safety has become a risk to patient safety--the constant beeping of alarms and an overabundance of information transmitted by medical devices such as ventilators, blood pressure monitors and cardiac monitors. Nurses can become overwhelmed or desensitized, causing them to miss key changes in a patient’s condition. Now, The Joint Commission has issued a Sentinel Event Alert urging healthcare workers and their leaders to take a focused look at this issue known as alarm fatigue.Read more
Caring for a Multicultural Patient Population
April 25, 2013 - How would you rate your cultural competency? As America’s patient base becomes increasingly multicultural, nurses must become more adept at addressing patients’ cultural, informational and linguistic needs, along with improving patients’ access to care and preventive services.Read more
April 25, 2013 - How would you rate your cultural competency? As America’s patient base becomes increasingly multicultural, nurses must become more adept at addressing patients’ cultural, informational and linguistic needs, along with improving patients’ access to care and preventive services.Read more
Diversity in Nursing Increasing Slowly
March 27, 2013 - Have you noticed that travel nurses and staff nurses alike are becoming a less homogenous group? And that’s a good thing, according to nursing leaders. As America becomes increasingly diverse, the health care field is seeing more men and minorities in nursing, although at a slower pace than the country as a whole.Read more
March 27, 2013 - Have you noticed that travel nurses and staff nurses alike are becoming a less homogenous group? And that’s a good thing, according to nursing leaders. As America becomes increasingly diverse, the health care field is seeing more men and minorities in nursing, although at a slower pace than the country as a whole.Read more
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