As many of you know, I have been in home health and hospice for over 35 years. I worked many years in the field seeing patients and writing plans of care. I’ve worked in middle management and mentored hundreds of nurses, therapists and social workers especially in documentation skills. Today I work in hospice as the QAPI nurse where I review documentation and the quality of care being provided by our fabulous staff. Home health and hospice are growing fields for nurses and other healthcare professionals. Patients leave the acute setting much sicker than they ever have and skilled professionals are in demand to handle the growth. But home health…
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Who Will Be Held Responsible for Nursing Home Deaths in Hurricane Irma?
I just have to rant. It sickens me to hear about nursing home residents suffering and dying in recent hurricanes. There’s the haunting photo of people sitting in wheelchairs in water over their laps in the Houston area. But a later photo showed them all OK after being evacuated. At least no one died from that debacle. Janice Connelly of Hollywood placed a memorial of balloons, flowers,candles and signs for the eight people who died at the center. Credit Scott McIntyre for The New York Times However, the 8 (so far) deaths in the Hollywood Fl rehab center are inexcusable. I hope the administrator and their owners are held responsible for…
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How Does an Electrocardiogram Work?
By Dsealy – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link I hope this post is useful especially to student nurses and to those who need to educate patients about ECG/EKGs.😊 Doctors use a test known as an electrocardiogram, also referred to as an ECG or EKG, to measure the heart’s electrical activity and detect any anomalies in one of the most important organs of the body. An ECG makes a recording of the timing and strength of electrical impulses as they flow through the heart. Coming out in a moving strip of paper from the ECG device, the recording is then read and interpreted by the doctor to see if the…
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Arrest of Utah ER Nurse is Deplorable Act!
There is a firestorm on social media about this atrocious act against a Utah ER nurse for advocating for an unconscious patient’s rights. We all have a lot to learn from this issue and to take actions to prevent the same situation from happening in our own backyard! THANK YOU Alex Hubbels! Please share. window.amznpubstudioTag = “daretodreampr-20”;