Nursing

NANDA Nursing Diagnosis | How to Write a Care Plan that Makes the Grade!
NANDA Nursing Diagnosis - What is It?
Why do we need to learn how to format a proper NANDA Nursing Diagnosis? One of the major components of a nursing school care plan is the nursing diagnosis. This is where you demonstrate to your instructor that you understand what you have been learning up to this point and how to apply it to improve your patient's care. You have performed your assessment of the patient, his or her medical history, and any labs or diagnostic tests that have been done. Now you have to say, "So? What does this m...

Mary Seacole - the black Nightingale
Mary Seacole, 19th Century Nurse
Mary Seacole is one of the forgotten heroes of the 19th Century.  She was "a woman who succeeded despite the racial prejudice of influential sections of Victorian society". Half Creole, half-Scottish, she was a determined and caring woman who travelled widely and defied convention, poverty, war and disease to tend to soldiers in  the Crimean War. Rejected by the War Office, and not permitted to travel with Florence Nightingale and her nurses, she went alone and set up the British Hotel betwee...

Nursing TShirts For Student Nurses
Nursing School T-Shirts
Do you know someone in nursing school? Nursing jobs are in great demand today. If you know someone who wants to be a nurse, encourage them to start nursing training. Then you can get them one of these great t-shirts about nursing practice. Learning to be a nurse can be a demanding time. Nurses are expected to know a lot. Sometimes a little comic relief is necessary. Photo credit to: iClipArt.com.

Nursing How-Tos: Tips, Tricks and Techniques for Nurses and Nursing Students!
An Ever-Growing Lensography for Nurses
I am forever indebted to the nurses who came before me and were willing to teach me what they knew. Because of them I did not have to "reinvent" the wheel... by giving of themselves, they ensured that the techniques they had learned, developed, and enhanced would be passed on to a new generation of nurses. They didn't HAVE to... they did so out of a love for nursing as a profession. Now it is my turn. After leaving the "big city" for a rural area, the slower pace of life is allowing me to "p...

How to Measure a Patients Body Temperature
Measuring Your Patient's Body Temperature: Basic Skills and Background Knowledge
One of the basic pieces of data collection necessary in the medical setting is body temperature. Parents bring their children in because they "have a fever". (Parents seem to fear fever above all else.) Most people think nothing of obtaining a temperature and thinking that it is accurate. However, there is a lot more to measuring body temperature than most people realize and commonly used measurements are not as accurate or meaningful as is generally perceived.

Certified Nurse TShirts
T-Shirts For Certified Nurses
Certified nurses unite. Have you passed that incredibly difficult certification exam? Be Proud! Share your accomplishment with the world. Wearing one of these great Certified Nurse tees announces that you have gone the extra mile and are an expert in your field. Zazzle offers you the opportunity to personalize all these shirts. Add a name to make a cherished gift! Photo from iClipArt.com.

Nurse and Elderly
The Nurse and The Elderly
Nurses nowadays are in great demand worldwide. Perhaps, this is because there is an increasing rate of geriatric patients. These geriatric patients refer to the elderly who are sent in the nursing home care because there family can no longer take care of them. There are wide different roles of a nurse. In fact, if you want to become a nurse, you need enough courage and determination in rendering the best quality care. Even if most nurses receive high pay salary, this profession is not merely...

Anatomy of Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Balance in Pediatric Patients
Differences in Fluids, Electrolytes, and Acid-Base Balance in the Pediatric Population.
The body is mostly composed of water... we can go for a great length of time with no food intake, but with no water intake we rapidly become dehydrated, weak, and can die. Water is used by the body for metabolism (which is why if you don't get enough of it you can't lose weight!), to get rid of the waste byproducts of metabolism, and to regulate the temperature of the body. Water is also the major component in your blood and lymphatic fluid. In the pediatric population, this fluid balance is...

Pediatric Soft Tissue Injury
Traumatic Injuries: Pediatric Soft-Tissue Injury
A soft-tissue injury is any injury to the muscles, ligaments or tendons. These types of injuries are very common in the pediatric population. Younger children usually acquire them during play-time mishaps. Older children and teens usually get soft-tissue injuries from their participation in sports. Soft-tissue injuries can be classified as contusions, dislocations, sprains, and strains. Treatment for soft-tissue injuries should begin as soon as possible. The acronym for soft-tissue injury m...