The Nursing CPD Institute: Nursing News
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Purple Urine Bag Syndrome
Have you ever seen purple urine in a catheterised Patient? I haven't and I believe it to be a rare occurrence, however, I was reading a few articles the other day and came across a picture of purple urine. At first, I thought it was a prank - a few Condy's Crystals in...
Influenza, 10 years on from the “Swine Flu” pandemic
The following is a very informative article published in the June 2019 edition of the Clinical Communique by Professor Allen Cheng MB BS, FRACP, MPH, MBiostat, PhD Director, Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Unit, Alfred Health Professor of Infectious...
A Swine of a Diagnosis!
The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine has recently published an article including coroner findings regarding the deaths of two patients in 2009.The cases were heard as concurrent inquests into the deaths of two patients. The two patients were not known to...
Duct Tape and Wart Removal Part three
Which Type of Duct Tape Is Best for Wart Removal? If you have been following the previous two parts then this last and final part on the use of duct tape and wart removal will be of great interest to you. As Dr Gregor commences his presentation I was concerned. The...
Kissing a Patient!
Some time ago a colleague shared an article from nurse.com an American newsletter that reported “Does staff member’s kiss of resident violate CMS regulations?” This is the USA monitoring authority for aged care facilities. At first glance my immediate response to the...
Nurses in Crisis
Often after providing a lecture or webinar about bullying in nursing, employment contracts of Fair Work legislation, contact is made by a member who is experiencing the catastrophe of work injury, termination or ongoing unemployment attributed to previous injury or...
Criminal Health Carers
Sometimes it seems that there is a cascade of items, similar and worrying that catches attention in a short time. That was this week’s experience for me. The first news item that gave me pause was a story in Queensland about a 77 year old woman admitted to hospital...
Nursing Trivia: July 2019
Can you get all three correct without Googling the answers?
Medication Management Musings – Practice Tips
Not only are Nurses expected to safely administer medication in the difficult circumstances like I described in my last Blog post, but we are required to do it alongside rapidly changing technology and pharmaceutical innovations. Technological changes are happening...
Duct Tape and Wart Removal Part Two
In Part two Dr Greger identifies that "one of the “unusual, innovative, and long-forgotten remedies” noted in this dermatology journal was “the use of duct tape” to cure warts—finally put to the test. There’s all sorts of conventional therapies, from acid to...
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