Archive for October 2023
564 Are you sleep deprived? Jennifer Patenaude
Getting enough of the right kind of sleep challenges many people, especially nurses who work at night and those who get moved to different shifts. Jennifer Patenaude, a health coach, describes the healing function of sleep, what disrupts it, and how to come back into balance when you are sleep deprived. She emphasizes that sleep…
Read More563 Inside Home Care Nursing – Angela Barker
Today, Angela Barker, a former pediatric ICU nurse working in the area of pediatric private duty home care for pediatric and adult patients, describes the unique complexities of home care nursing for children. As an LNC, she also takes up the liability risks and the documentation to look for. This care may be short- or…
Read More562 The Medical Errors Epidemic-Dr. Kayur Patel
Unfortunately, due to the medical errors epidemic in health care, prior to the Covid epidemic, medical errors constituted the third greatest cause of death. Dr. Kayur Patel describes what’s wrong and how it can be changed. He is Chief Medical Officer of Proactive MD, a healthcare model that serves many U.S. healthcare institutions, He acknowledges…
Read More561 Liability for Infections in Healthcare Facilities – Connie Schaefer
On a worldwide basis, sepsis causes 20% of all deaths. Connie Schaefer, an LNC, registered nurse. She is also an infection preventionist, describes this huge problem and what’s being done to prevent infections in healthcare. Speed of diagnosis and also treatment are essential in order to control and cure a septic condition. This is the…
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