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• Tips for talking to patients 

  I wanted to share a couple of tips I have for helping patients. Sometimes a patient refuses pain medications because of her religious beliefs. You...

  12/01/04 by Reynolds, Janice · More from publication

• Beware a fatal flaw 

  NEEDLELESS I.V. ACCESS A child was receiving medication via a nebulizer to treat asthma when the oxygen tubing became disconnected from the...

  12/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication

• Tips to avoid double dosing 

  When more than one practitioner administers drugs to a patient during a shift, the risk of double dosing increases. For example, one nurse might...

  12/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication

• Default could lie with de pump 

  ERRONEOUS PCA A prescriber ordered patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) for a postoperative patient using the opioid fentanyl according to facility...

  12/01/04 by Cohen, Michael R · More from publication

• Fractures and child abuse 

  * In your article "How to Recognize and Respond to Child Abuse" (October 2004), you noted that spiral fractures in children are a telltale sign of...

  12/01/04 by Brown, Carol · More from publication

• Linking pay to performance 

  * It's great to see the value that nurses of different experience, education, and certifications can bring to the table and the fiscal benefits...

  12/01/04 by Stern, Edward A · More from publication

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