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Breast implant surgery is a popular, globally performed, and frequently requested cosmetic and reconstructive surgical procedure. Breast implant surgery can cause implant-associated systemic symptoms and types of implant-associated cancers, so it is vital to monitor patient outcomes. Most patients who undergo breast implant surgery do not experience health problems.

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Update: The 2024 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice.

Home Healthc Now

July 2024

Lisa A. Gorski, MS, RN, HHCNS-BC, CRNI, FAAN, is a Clinical Education Specialist, Ascension at Home, and Editor, Home Healthcare Now.

The Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice provide evidence-based recommendations for infusion and access device related care in any healthcare setting. Developed and published by the Infusion Nurses Society, the Standards have increased the frequency of the revision process from an every 5-year cycle to a 3-year cycle due to the growing base of literature and to deliver the most updated and current practice recommendations. This article provides an overview of the development process and a brief description of selected standards.

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Breast implant surgery is a popular plastic surgery procedure performed worldwide. Despite its global popularity, patients undergoing breast implant surgery are at risk for systemic illness and more than one form of cancer. We conducted a nursing workflow analysis at our facility and determined that it is not standard practice to screen patients for the presence or absence of breast implant devices at every health care encounter.

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Utilizing Handoff Reporting Tools to Improve the Novice Nurse's Workflow.

J Nurses Prof Dev

March 2023

Kristelle Garcia, MSN, RN, CMSRN, NPD-BC, is a Clinical Education Specialist, in Paterson, New Jersey.

The novice nurse is task oriented and requires guidance to recognize connections in clinical practice. Novice nurses must learn to prioritize, organize, and differentiate between information that is "nice-to-know" versus "need-to-know" to deliver competent nursing care. Nursing literature makes evident that utilizing communication frameworks increases the delivery of clear communication and improves patient outcomes.

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Background: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are the second most common health care-associated infections, occurring most frequently in intensive care units. These infections negatively affect patient outcomes and health care costs.

Local Problem: The targeted institution for this improvement project reported 13 catheter-associated urinary tract infections in 2018, exceeding the hospital's benchmark of 4 or fewer such events annually.

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A Look at 2021 Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice.

Home Healthc Now

November 2021

Lisa Gorski, MS, RN, HHCNS-BC, CRNI, FAAN , is a Clinical Education Specialist/Clinical Nurse Specialist, Ascension at Home Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice provide evidence-based recommendations as published by the Infusion Nurses Society every 5 years. This article provides a brief overview of the development process and short summaries of selected standards with attention to highlighting the relevance to home care agencies and nurses. The Standards should be reviewed by any home care organization that provides home infusion therapy.

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Validation of a Postextubation Dysphagia Screening Tool for Patients After Prolonged Endotracheal Intubation.

Am J Crit Care

March 2018

Karen L. Johnson is research director, nursing, Banner Health, Phoenix, Arizona. Lauri Speirs is stroke clinical nurse specialist, JPS Health Network, Fort Worth, Texas. Anne Mitchell is a clinical nurse specialist, retired from Banner Baywood Medical Center, Mesa, Arizona. Heather Przybyl is a clinical education specialist; medical/surgical intensive care unit, Banner University Medical Center-Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona. Diane Anderson is a speech language pathologist and rehabilitation services senior manager, Banner Baywood Medical Center. Brenda Manos is senior clinical manager cardiac care unit/intensive care unit, Banner Estrella Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona. Amy T. Schaenzer is a speech language pathologist, Banner University Medical Center-Phoenix. Keri Winchester is a speech language pathologist, Banner Gateway Medical Center, Gilbert, Arizona.

Background: Patients who receive prolonged endotracheal intubation (> 48 hours) are at risk for dysphagia. Nurses should conduct swallowing assessments after extubation because of the high likelihood of aspiration pneumonia developing. No valid and reliable postextubation dysphagia screening tools are available.

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"Teach-back" from a patient's perspective.

Nursing

February 2016

In Pittsburgh, Pa., Shelley Miller is a clinical education specialist and Margaret Lattanzio is a programmatic nurse specialist in cardiovascular services at UPMC Passavant Hospital. Susan Cohen is an associate professor in the department of health promotion and development and is also gender, sexuality, and women's studies program-affiliated faculty at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Speed of blood withdrawal and accurate measurement of oxygen content in mixed venous blood.

Am J Crit Care

November 2014

Katie Jaschke, Dianna Brown, Alicia Clark, Sarah Doull, Nicole Hoover, and David Klamm are staff nurses in the cardiac intensive care unit at Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri. Ashley English, Chung Odom, Brenna Primrose, and Kristin Sollars were staff nurses in the cardiac intensive care unit at Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City when the study was done. English is now a nurse practitioner for the Saint Luke's internal medicine group in Kansas City, Missouri. Odom is now a staff nurse in the surgical trauma intensive care unit at University of Arkansas Medical Center in Little Rock. Primrose is now an acute care nurse practitioner in the neurosurgical intensive care unit at Saint Luke's Hospital. Sollars is now a clinical education specialist in critical care for Saint Luke's Health System, Kansas City, Missouri. Philip Jones is a senior biostatistician for the cardiovascular outcomes group, Mid-America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri. Marci Ebberts is a clinical education specialist for Saint Luke's Health System.

Background: Measurement of mixed venous oxygen saturation helps determine whether cardiac output and oxygen delivery are sufficient for metabolic needs. As recommended by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses guideline, blood samples for determining mixed venous oxygen saturation are obtained by slowly, in 1 to 2 minutes, withdrawing 1.5 mL of blood from the distal port of the pulmonary artery catheter.

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Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is a therapeutic technique used to support critically ill patients with acute renal failure in intensive care units. CRRT is preferred over hemodialysis for patients who cannot tolerate the rapid fluid and electrolyte shifts associated with hemodialysis because of their tenuous hemodynamic state. Traditionally, such patients have not been candidates for mobilization and have remained on strict bed rest.

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What's the impact of quality bundles at the bedside?

Nursing

December 2013

Catherine Whelchel is a senior product manager in Spartanburg, S.C. At Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., Lisa Berg is clinical director of critical care and dialysis, and Annette Brown is director of clinical informatics. Debra Hurd is a nurse executive at Saint John's Hospital, HealthEast Care Systems, in Maplewood, Minn. Dianne Koepping is a senior clinical analyst in Westminster, Colo. Shalan Stroud is a clinical education specialist at Saint Luke's East Hospital in Lee's Summit, Mo.

Background: Managing quality bundles can be challenging for clinical nurses. A study was undertaken to examine quality bundle volumes by patient and nursing perceptions in managing those volumes.

Methods: Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from more than 400 patients and their clinical nurses in five hospitals to provide insight into bedside complexities related to quality bundles.

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The purpose of this article is to educate childbirth educators about environmental hazards and provide resources. Hazardous chemicals have been found in cord blood, placenta, meconium, and breastmilk samples. These chemicals include commonly known hazards such as lead, mercury, and environmental tobacco smoke, as well as some pesticides, solvents, products containing chlorine, and other chemicals referred to as "persistent organic pollutants.

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The Code of Ethics for Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators outlines the ethical principles and standards that are derived from childbirth education's core values to assure quality and ethical practice. This article presents a summary of the history of ethics and medical ethics that informs a value-oriented decision-making process in childbirth education. The role of evidence in ethics is explored from the childbirth educator's viewpoint, and scenarios are used to reflect on situations that are examples of ethical distress.

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Care practice #6: no separation of mother and baby, with unlimited opportunities for breastfeeding.

J Perinat Educ

August 2012

JEANNETTE CRENSHAW is President of Lamaze International (LI). She is LI's representative to the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC) and serves on the USBC leadership team. She is a clinical education specialist at Texas Health Resources, The Center for Learning, in Arlington, Texas, and a member of the graduate faculty in the University of Texas at Arlington School of Nursing.

This updated edition of Care Practice Paper #6 presents the evidence for the benefits of keeping mothers and babies together after birth. The normal physiology of the postpartum and early newborn periods is explained. The author reviews the influence of early and frequent skin-to-skin contact and rooming-in on breastfeeding and early attachment.

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