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Today's NCLEX: What's New, What's Not and How to Prepare

1/13/2012 9:00:00 PM

January 13, 2012 - For Pamela Gardner, MSN, RN, director of nursing programs and NCLEX instructor for Kaplan Test Prep, comparing the NCLEX-RN examination to a marathon is the best way to convey the elements of a successful testing process to the nursing students with whom she works. The idea is to prepare in advance, practice and stay calm--all the same things that runners do leading up to a big race.

ANA Releases Back-to-School Healthy Student Checklist

8/22/2011 1:45:00 PM

August 22, 2011 - Nurses play an integral role in a child’s wellbeing, from health screenings and preventive care to first aid and emergency care. With the start of a new school year, the American Nurses Association (ANA) has a few tips for parents to help optimize students’ health, safety, and capacity for learning.

1-MINUTE CLINICALS: Cooling Post-Cardiac-Arrest - Saving the Heart and Brain

8/2/2011 11:25:00 AM

August 1, 2011 - The 2010 AHA Guidelines for resuscitation have a new emphasis on post-arrest patient care. A new hallmark practice is the emphasis on cooling arrest patients. As you know, hypothermia has been shown to preserve tissue and is commonly used in many types of surgical procedures. Therapeutic hypothermia in the post-arrest patient can help preserve both cardiac and brain function.

CWRU's Nursing School Prepares Future Nurses for the OR Environment

8/1/2011 2:40:00 PM

August 1, 2011 - The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB) at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) will introduce mandatory perioperative nursing content to its undergraduate curriculum this fall and will become one of the first schools to do so.

Johns Hopkins Nursing Student Donates Handmade Quilts

5/25/2011 2:15:00 PM

May 25, 2011 - Let's face it, there is nothing quite like curling up with a comfy blanket and reading a book or watching your favorite television show. However, many of Baltimore's youth aren't afforded this simple luxury. Johns Hopkins School of Nursing student Melissa House '11 plans to change that. On May 19, she helped present 55 handmade quilts to children at the Kennedy Krieger Institute's Southeast Early Head Start Center (SEEHS) in Baltimore City.

1-MINUTE CLINICALS - Lupus: Deciphering the Clues

5/3/2011 10:50:00 AM

May 3, 2011 - As the prototypical autoimmune disease, lupus occurs when the immune system malfunctions. In people with lupus, the immune system loses its ability to distinguish between these foreign substances, called antigens, and the body’s own cells and tissue. The self-antibodies create immune complexes which lodge in the body’s tissue, causing inflammation and organ damage.