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How Automation Gives Nurses More Time for Patient Care 

Daily Nurse

I began my career as a bedside nurse in the 1990s. ” The Power of Data to Improve Healthcare I’ve never met a nurse who got into the profession to become wealthy. People enter nursing because they are driven to help others. I’ve had 200 people on my operating room table during this time.”

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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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Discharge planning assessment tool

American Nurse

The solution To help bedside nurses effectively communicate with patients, families, and providers in preparation for discharge, an interprofessional team at our organization developed a six-question discharge-planning assessment tool, which we piloted on the medical-surgical unit. BMC Health Serv Res. 2019;19(1):935. December 1, 2021.

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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. •