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NEW CE: A Case Study on Inpatient Transfers

NHA Now

In About Inpatient Transfers , you can learn about devices, guidelines, and body mechanic techniques to keep your patients and yourself safe during inpatient transfers. We’ll follow Maria, a newly certified patient care technician, as she completes her first two weeks of on the job training at a big city nursing home.

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Should I Start Lifting If I Want to Be a Psych Nurse?

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Nurses stand for hours, transferring and lifting patients, and carrying out a myriad of tasks that demand physical resilience. The following exercises can bolster your core, legs, and back strength, which are essential for a psychiatric nurse. Wrapping Up Are you considering hitting the gym before stepping onto the psych ward?

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HR Clinic – Managing Staff Consultations and Changes (Questions and Answers)

Practice Index

For the transferor that means consulting with the staff who are about to transfer, as well as any other existing/continuing employees who might be affected by the transfer. The transferor provides Employment Liability Information (ELI) about the staff who are transferring and what their terms and conditions are. This is hard.

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3 big lessons I learned when my patient almost fell

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My patient was five days post-stroke and waiting on a bed on another unit and would probably transfer today. that I decided to follow his lead. When he could barely hold himself up, I again thought to myself, “We really should just use the lift…” and said that to the CNA. “No, We stood him up and he was dead weight.

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Babies with the DNA of Three Different People Born in the U.K.

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Once the egg has been fertilized with sperm, it is transferred back into the womb of the mother. “The Newcastle team involved in carrying out the procedures are cautious and will have wanted to include at least some follow-up data on the babies, while also protecting the privacy of the families,” Lovell-Badge explained.

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Verizon 2024 DBIR: 70% of Healthcare Data Breaches Caused by Insiders

The HIPAA Journal

Credential theft was the most common method of breaching networks and was the initial access vector in 38% of all data breaches, followed by phishing (15%). 15% of data breaches involved third parties such as software supply chains, hosting providers, and data custodians, up 68% year-over-year.

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Navigating the Nursing Job Market: Tips for Landing Your Dream Job

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If you don’t have any direct healthcare experience, consider including transferable skills, such as communication and problem-solving, that can be applied to nursing. The report indicates that these characteristics are what make up a good nurse and the reason why they would be hired.