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Health Care Workers Affected By COVID-19 Rises - RNspeak

Recent news has been quite surprised about the alarmingly increasing numbers of health care workers that are affected by the COVID-19.

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Filipina Nurse gets discriminated and robbed at a train: How can President Duterte help in times like these?

Filipina Nurse gets discriminated and robbed at a train: How can President Duterte help in times like these?

A 19 year old woman, who was identified as Tashia James, was arrested for racially discriminating a Filipino nurse in Toronto, Canada.

A video was taken by a fellow passenger who later on told CTV News Toronto that a woman in a black shirt argued with a woman in a pink scrub suit inside the subway car near Eglinton West Station.

According to the witness, the bickering started with the suspect…

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President Rodrigo Duterte might just be the reason for an OFW Nurse to lose his job in London

President Rodrigo Duterte might just be the reason for an OFW Nurse to lose his job in London

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte might just be the reason why an OFW Nurseis at risk of losing his high paying job. Despite the President’s positive ratings recently on the SWS survey, many are still not at par with his programs and statements. One Filipino Nurse blatantly posts his opinions on his social media accounts, preferably on twitter, about his disgust with the President, his programs and…

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Professional Addicts – Nurses Get Caught under the Influence of Drugs

Professional Addicts – Nurses Get Caught under the Influence of Drugs

It was awesome to watch how Dr. House and Nurse Jackie would treat their patients even under an influence of a drug. The glamorous TV shows have masked the dark side of reality. According to research, drug and alcohol addiction of doctors and nurses stands at between 10 to 14 per cent.

A Florida Nurse Caught Stealing Drugs

“I did urine tests on her and she must have gotten clean urine from…

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Fake Filipino Nurses from Recto University

Fake Filipino Nurses from Recto University

How far would you go to reach your dreams and success?

CALIFORNIA – A licensed vocational nurse has been charged with four felonies after allegedly submitting fake foreign transcripts and falsified documents in order to make his big dream come true, that is to become a registered nurse.

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DeWayne Dai Dela Guerra, commonly known as DeWayne Aundray Williams, was scheduled to appear…

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Common Nursing Job Interview Questions and Answers - Plus! Learn What to Ask When Interviewing for a Nursing Job

Common Nursing Job Interview Questions and Answers – Plus! Learn What to Ask When Interviewing for a Nursing Job

Your nursing dream job is just around the corner. You’ve put together a solid resume highlighting your experience, you’ve been invited for an interview and not it’s time to review and prepare for those common nursing job interview questions. Depending on where you live and the nursing job you’re applying for, competition can be tough. The more prepared you are, the more relaxed you’ll be during…

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Urinary Tract Infection Nursing Care Plan

Urinary Tract Infection Nursing Care Plan

Urinary Tract Infection is due to an infection the lower urinary tract, involving the bladder, and sometimes the urethra and the ureter. It is ascending infection caused commonly by E. coli, Enterobacter, Pseudomonas and Serratia. Clients who are at risk for having urinary tract infection are those with long standing indwelling catheters, pregnant women, females who are sexually active or those…

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Five Best Mobile Apps for Nurses

Five Best Mobile Apps for Nurses

Nurses are using advanced mobile devices to get hold of the information that they require to improve the quality of patient care and to be updated with the changes that take place in the medical field. Apart from the usual apps that everyone uses there are some of them which are rendered to professional doctors and nurseswhich makes their work easy. If you are one of them using those apps you can…

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Thrombophlebitis Pathophysiology & Disease Process

Thrombophlebitis Pathophysiology & Disease Process

Thrombophlebitis is the inflammation of a vein accompanied by the formation of thrombus(blood clot),which may run or move at different parts of the body known as migrating thrombophlebitis or thrombophlebitis migrans.

Pathophysiology of Thrombophlebitis

Thrombophlebitis is completely known from its three factor development as Virchow’s triadwhich has been associated with the creation of venous…

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The State of Nursing by 2018 - What Nurses Should Expect

The State of Nursing by 2018 – What Nurses Should Expect

When it comes to healthcare, nurses are the ones in the frontlines. You’re the first face a patient sees when they walk into a hospital. From the moment they walk in, to the moment they walk out, a nurse would be by their side; administering and evaluating treatment, and providing emotional support the whole way.

As a nurse, it’s important to stay updated with the general state of nursing, and…

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The Importance of Nurses Compliance to Hand Hygiene

The Importance of Nurses Compliance to Hand Hygiene

Nurses are the ones who are in the hospital 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. We are the great “multi-taskers” of the healthcare industry from executing doctors’ orders, granting patients’ requests, preparing variety of medications, writing interventions to maintaining an organized designated area. These are just few and many are not yet mentioned.

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It just points…

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10 ways to Manage Stress for Nurses and Patients

10 ways to Manage Stress for Nurses and Patients

Every nurse is familiar with the word “stress” which is most of the time equivalent to colloquial medical term of “toxic” which for us nurses means too many patients to handle. This scenario is one of the causes of a work-related stress which according to WHO can damage employees’ health and performance. It could also be caused by little support from supervisors and colleagues, as well as little…

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Top 10 in demand Jobs for Ex -Nurses

Top 10 in demand Jobs for Ex -Nurses

There was a decrease in the Employment Rate in the Philippines estimated 93.4 % compared to 94.3% of last year’s according to Philippine Statistic Authority. This is based on the results from the Labor Force Survey of January 2017. There is also an increase in Unemployment Rate of 6.6% from 5.7% and decrease in Underemployment Rateof 16.3 from 19.6% which clearly depicts that there is something…

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Float Nurse: An uplifting remedy or a sinking solution for manpower?

Float Nurse: An uplifting remedy or a sinking solution for manpower?

Have you experienced floating to other units because they lack manpower and your unit has a low patient census? You walked to that station; clueless of your companions, clueless of what’s going on, and clueless of your patient assignments. Scary right?

According to Medical Dictionary, float nurseis available for assignment to duty on an ad hoc basis, usually to assist in times of unusually heavy…

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10 Cases of Abuse Filipino Nurses Suffer from their own Country

10 Cases of Abuse Filipino Nurses Suffer from their own Country

Filipino nurses have been abused for too long. It’s time to stop. It’s time for the global community to know the about the harsh realities and the unjust system in the Philippine healthcare-settings. What kind of abuse do I mean?

  1. False volunteerism

Most hospitals in the Philippines require their nurse applicants (licensed nurse) to volunteer for 2-6 months or for some, 1-2 years depending…

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PNoy dooms PH to Nurse Scarcity

PNoy dooms PH to Nurse Scarcity

Filipino nurses across the globe are anticipating the change. We assumed we could finally rest our thought that we don’t have to go abroad to get a decent working condition. We anticipated that we could be reunited with our families working abroad as nurses. We presumed that there’s a better hope for our profession in this country, that we could serve our fellowmen without compromising the needs…

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15 Common Nursing Procedures We mess-up Unknowingly

15 Common Nursing Procedures We mess-up Unknowingly

As experienced nurses, we do nursing procedures every day and they become routines over time. But do you know that there are common nursing procedures that sometimes we do wrong?

Medication mishaps

1. Not all oral medications can be crushed.

Nurses usually crush medications into powdered form so it can be administered via NGT. But according to Royal Pharmaceutical Society (2011) crushing an oral…

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