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Forensic Nurse: All You Need to Know About Forensic Nursing
What is forensic nursing and how to become a forensic nurse? Forensic nursing might be for you if you have deep empathy with the victims of abuse and feel strongly that justice needs to be done. Violence is an ever-present social and health problem and forensic nurses are the link between the health care systemContinueContinue reading “Forensic Nurse: All You Need to Know About Forensic Nursing”
When Nurses Have to Work on Christmas Day
Working together as a team, and in their usual spirit of caring, nurses who are working on Christmas day can uphold the traditions and spread the joy of the season for their patients, other members of the health team and each other.
Nurse’s Medication Error Causes Patient’s Death and Financial Threat to Hospital
A nurse’s medication error at a leading hospital in Tennessee caused a patient’s horrific death, and the hospital nearly lost its Medicare reimbursement status as a result. The question is whether the nurse alone is to blame or whether there were also failures in the hospital’s systems. The medication error occurred nearly a year agoContinueContinue reading “Nurse’s Medication Error Causes Patient’s Death and Financial Threat to Hospital”