Dec 9, 2019
One of my colleagues, Rachel Williams (@rawbubbles9), and her team are working very hard to get the patients moving and then hopefully home sooner whilst on the wards. This involves a number of methods including reindeer!
Nov 5, 2019
My contacts at the American Association of Critical Care Nurses put me in touch with Jill Guttormson, the author of Nurses’ Attitudes and Practices Related to Sedation: A National Survey. It seems we are still not great at doing the sedation hold and this is an attempt to find out why. Some interesting points raised...
Oct 15, 2019
Sep 19, 2019
Paul uses this A-Z checklist for every patient on the ward round. Here he takes us through it to add to our understanding of some of the issues we need to consider when assessing our patients.
Aug 31, 2019
In this episode Bryan discusses some of the issues with pain, agitation and delirium with the pharmacist Komal Pandya.
We all try to understand how to help our patients and sometimes get it wrong, but lets continue to work hard to improve.
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