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Should You Become a Nurse Practitioner?

Nurse.com

For Perion, “advocacy, collaboration, and communication” are the three key things she learned as a bedside nurse, and these are also the goals she brings into her NP practice each day. The Need for Nurse Practitioners. Education to Become a Nurse Practitioner.

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Preventing hospital-acquired pressure injuries

American Nurse

Medicare estimates that each pressure injury adds $43,180 to a hospital stay. The how To assess clinical nurses’ PI knowledge and prevention strategies, the wound care nurse and educator team asked newly employed nurses to complete the Pieper-Zulkowski Pressure Ulcer Knowledge Test (PUKT). worldwide. •