Pediatric Hypertension: A Pharmacological Review
No abstract available (Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care)
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - April 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: CE Tests Source Type: research
Ethical Issues in Caring for Patients With Ebola: Implications for Critical Care Nurses
No abstract available (Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care)
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: CE Tests Source Type: research
Person- and Family-Centered Care: A Time for Reflection
No abstract available (Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care)
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: DEPARTMENTS: Pediatric Perspectives Source Type: research
Electronic Health Record Workflow: Why More Work Than Flow?
No abstract available (Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care)
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: DEPARTMENTS: Technology Today Source Type: research
Wandering Atrial Pacemaker and Multifocal Ectopic Atrial Tachycardia
No abstract available (Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care)
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: DEPARTMENTS: ECG Challenges Source Type: research
Ethical Issues in Caring for Patients With Ebola: Implications for Critical Care Nurses
No abstract available (Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care)
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: CE Tests Source Type: research
Clinical Nurse Specialist Regulation: The Maryland Experience
High-quality care will continue to be a driver in the evolution of today's health care environment. Ensuring effective, cost-conscious, quality care is the core of clinical nurse specialist (CNS) practice. The CNS practice varies by state, depending on each state's Nurse Practice Act. Some states have separate scopes of practice for CNSs, including prescriptive authority, whereas some states do not recognize CNS practice as different from the practice of the registered nurse. The journey to state recognition and title protection for the CNS role in the state of Maryland is described. (Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care)
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Symposium Demonstrating the Value of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Acute and Critical Care Source Type: research
Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Journey to Magnet Recognition
Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) work with and through other nurses as well as interprofessional team members to advance nursing practice, improve outcomes, and provide clinical expertise to effect system-wide changes to improve programs of care. They practice across the continuum and through 3 spheres of influence, encompassing the patient, nurse, and system. Clinical nurse specialists possess expertise in developing and refining structures, strategies, and processes to optimize outcomes at both the unit (micro) level and the organization or system (macro) level. This unique vantage point positions CNSs as ideal individu...
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Symposium Demonstrating the Value of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Acute and Critical Care Source Type: research
Using a Scorecard to Demonstrate Clinical Nurse Specialists' Contributions
This article describes the development of a CNS scorecard in a 627-bed tertiary hospital. (Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care)
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Symposium Demonstrating the Value of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Acute and Critical Care Source Type: research
Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Improving Patient Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery
Health care reform continues to focus on improving patient outcomes while reducing costs. Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) should facilitate this process to ensure that best practice standards are used and patient safety is enhanced. One example of ensuring best practices and patient safety is early extubation after open heart surgery, which is a critical component of fast track protocols that reduces may reduce the development of pulmonary complications in the postoperative period while decreasing overall length of stay in the hospital. This project was an interdisciplinary endeavor, led by the CNS and nurse manager, whi...
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Symposium Demonstrating the Value of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Acute and Critical Care Source Type: research
Demonstrating the Value of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Acute and Critical Care
No abstract available (Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care)
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: SYMPOSIUM DEMONSTRATING THE VALUE OF CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS IN ACUTE AND CRITICAL CARE: Symposium Introduction Source Type: research
A Collaborative Critical Care Preceptorship for APRN Students
Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) increasingly are caring for critically ill patients as a part of interprofessional teams, but new APRNs may have limited critical care exposure in their training. We created a 12-week critical care preceptorship for APRN students as well as a curriculum composed of daily case-based teaching. Student assessment methods included direct observation, pretests and posttests of critical care knowledge, and presurveys and postsurveys of perceptions about critical care skills. The average score on the knowledge pretest was 50% and increased to 74% on the posttest (N = 10). Students repor...
Source: AACN Advanced Critical Care - January 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Tags: Features Source Type: research
