The Nursing Prof
In a quote from a nurse on the frontlines of the COVID crisis, “I have witnessed innumerable deaths in my career. But I’ve never watched this many, relatively young, otherwise healthy people become this sick, this quickly and die alone. As of today, the CDC reports 12 million cases and 257,000 deaths from COVID-19. Every …
Delirium in the ICU is associated with increased hospital length of stay with cognitive impairment, and even with death. Delirium may go undetected in many of our hospitalized patients or be assumed to be part of the ordinary course of the disease. However, in this study, they found that family administered delirium detection has high …
Not good at test-taking? Change that. Many self-proclaimed poor test-takers are really poor-studiers instead. Exams serve as a method of assessment of learning. If learning has not happened at a level at which you can apply what you learned, then you will have trouble applying learning to exam questions. The key is to focus on …
