Health Care Field Needs Employees Other Than Nurses - Nursing Link

Health Care Field Needs Employees Other Than Nurses - Nursing Link

How to Set up a Suture Tray | eHow.com

How to Set up a Suture Tray eHow.com Im just learning how to do things like setting up a suture tray so I thought Id post this for anyone else out there in my shoes. Ive only done it once so Ive written some of the things needed in a little notebook so Ill remember the next time

Hands Only CPR

Great web site by the American Heart Association! Check it out!
http://handsonlycpr.org/

Keep Your Fingernails Nice

Too many times Ive seen other Nursing Aides with long and or artifical nails. Nails should NOT be long. They also should be real. This is an area of debate, but the Infection Control Nurses of America have a position about artificial nails on nursing staff: Bacteria find a wonderful medium for growth under these nails. Many a patient has been scratched and infected with long unclean nails. It isn’t a matter of looks anymore so much as a matter of safety.
Artificial Nails and Nail Polish

India Superbug Gene

Some news today about the superbug showing up in the drinking water in India.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110407/wl_sthasia_afp/healthdiseaseindiaresearch_20110407131616

34th Annual National Nursing Assistants Week June 16th-23rd 2011!!!!

The nationwide observance of Nursing Assistant’s Week provides many opportunities to recognize and validate the role of the nursing assistant in the health care system. Public recognition of nursing assistants provides a valuable service, not only for making nursing assistants more visible, but also, to lessen the concern by family members when a loved one is in need of special care.