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Careers in Nursing: Why Choose Home Care Nursing

Careers in Nursing: Why Choose Home Care Nursing
Nurses have many career pathways and job opportunities, from hospitals to nursing homes to insurance companies to med spas.  Home health is often an overlooked or unknown career pathway.  When people think of home care nursing, they often think of visit nurses who provide acute follow-up to an event or a hospitalization.  However, there is...
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5 Tips for the New Night Shift Nurse

5 Tips for the New Night Shift Nurse
This article, written by Lauren Pope of Chamberlain University, outlines 5 excellent tips for new night nurses to help prevent burnout. For night owls, the night shift may seem like a dream. For others, it may require a change in lifestyle and an active effort to maintain a healthy sleep schedule and diet. So how can...
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The EIGHT “Rights” of Medication Administration

The EIGHT “Rights” of Medication Administration
Traditionally, nurses have been taught the “five rights” of medication administration.  These are broadly stated goals and practices to help individual nurses administer drugs safely.
  1. The right drug: Check the drug label and verify that the drug and form to be given is the drug that was prescribed.
  2. The right patient: Confirm the patient’s identity...
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How Do We Know?

In an industry riddled with fraud and misappropriations, my team at Communities of Care has committed ourselves to the highest ethical standards and also to being the most effectively-run business we can be.  So how can we be sure that we are doing a good job? We are intermittently audited by the Department of Health and...
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