Can a nurse refuse a patient with Ebola?
Everyone’s thought about it. Pictured themselves in a bunny suit, caring for an Ebola patient. Or a patient in the future with an equally virulent disease that takes us [...]
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Debunking Nursing Myths, Sacred Cows and Identifying Barriers to Evidence-Based Nursing Care
Debunking Reverse Isolation
Reverse Isolation not recognized by CDC Reverse isolation was eliminated as an isolation category by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the mid 1980’s. There [...]
5 Nursing Myths Debunked
Sacred Cows Here are 5 Nursing Myths or Sacred Cows that are not evidence-based but still persist in some pockets of nursing. Inflating foley balloon to test it prior to [...]
How to Cope With Patients Who Have a Substance Abuse Disorder
Is your patient a Drug Addict? Patients with substance abuse disorders are hard to cope with. So there’s this patient, Jake. Maybe you know him? Jake is very [...]