The 30th of November marks the end of Home Care & Hospice Month. Despite two-thirds of people relying on home care at some point in life, many of the details around the practicality of home care are relatively unknown. Here are 6 things you may not know about home care and the heroic nurses, aides …
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Philosophy is often cited as “thinking about thinking”, so with World Philosophy Day being celebrated this week (November 16th), it’s time to think about how Western society has thought about healthcare throughout the years. From Ancient Greece to today, it may come as a surprise that healthcare practices have always been influenced by, and influenced in …
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Nurses are the backbone of the hospital setting; the cogs in the machine, and the soldiers on the frontline. While their role was originally to provide bedside comfort, today’s nurses have a much more complex job, functioning as caregivers, educators, advocates, leaders, managers, and researchers. Medical-surgical nursing is the largest speciality in the nursing profession. …
Ampoule injuries are far too common. You might be surprised to know that ampoule injuries are the most common type of sharps injury in the healthcare industry. However, ampoule injuries are not taken nearly as important as other sharps injuries such as needlestick and scalpel injuries in clinical settings, despite their ubiquitousness in the healthcare …
Safety scalpels have been developed in response to a call for a better management of sharps in the healthcare industry and have been increasingly adopted under the (mis)conception of being “safe”. Here are some of the top reasons why you should avoid safety scalpels. Filmsy build quality and limited range of sizes and shapes Let’s …
The afternoon light danced across the hospital quilt warming the room and I was comfortable. My husband nodded off to sleep in the chair beside me. The last 10 days had been a whirlwind. Last Friday I was an IVF patient. On Monday I had a simple gynae procedure to reevaluate IVF strategy. On Wednesday …