Category: Nursing World
Joint Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, University of Nebraska Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuin..
Stress in Nursing and How You Can Manage It
Join us for part one of our two part series on stress & self-care. We sit down with Kaylie Guinan and Courtney Marshall, two Nursing Professional Development Specialists at Nebraska Medicine, and talk about how they deal with stress and their advice to you on how to lower it. This episode of RN Huddle has a few great pieces of advice that you won’t want to miss! Remember to join us again in two weeks to hear more from these two on self-care and how it can improve your work as well as your personal life.
Dec 5, 2019
Let’s Celebrate Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day!
This episode of RN Huddle, we are talking Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day with our very own Nurse Planner Renee Paulin (a certified WOCN) and also our very own, Dr. Janet Cuddigan, President of the National Pressure injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP). These two ladies are discussing the NEW Clinical Practice Guideline for Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Injuries. As an author of these guidelines, Dr. Cuddigan has the expertise to really explain these new guidelines and help answer any question!
Nov 21, 2019
Join us for this spooky edition of RN Huddle! We are joined by Amy Mead (Associate Nurse Manager) and Kalen Knight (Nurse Professional Development Specialist) from our own Nebraska Medicine Emergency Department. Amy and Kalen are familiar with all the creepy crawlies that come into the ER and discuss their most memorable experiences with lice, maggots, rabies and intestines where they don’t belong! Take a listen…if you dare…
Oct 23, 2019
How do you balance your workload & timing when it comes to administering medication to patients? To continue the legalities in nursing series, Dr. Black and Katie Cheetal discuss this issue and some legal consequences related to it.
Sep 3, 2019
RN Huddle is getting personal! Dr. Joyce Black shares a personal patient story with Katie and wonders “Did they do the right thing? We didn’t know we were doing anything wrong. She asks for Katie’s help in determining if they were actually wrong from a legal standpoint.
Aug 15, 2019
Falling and Watching Over Our Patients
“How can we keep patients from falling when in our care? In this latest episode of RN Huddle, Kathryn Cheatle and Joyce Black discuss Granny cams and if this will help or hurt health care providers in a legal sense.”
Jul 23, 2019
“Are pressure injuries avoidable? Can a patient sue a health provider over a pressure injury? In this episode of RN Huddle, Dr. Joyce Black and malpractice attorney Kathryn Cheatle continue their discussion on nursing and legalities with a focus on pressure injuries!”
Jul 15, 2019
Impact of Lawsuits with Nurses and Nurses’ Actions
Ever help a patient where they are taken care of properly and survived the hospital stay and they still sue you? Dr. Joyce Black of UNMC College of Nursing has. In this first episode of RN Huddle, she discusses this particular story with malpractice attorney Kathryn Cheatle. You’ll hear about this story as well as other malpractice lawsuits and those related details.
Jun 27, 2019
