Author: Dan Higgins, RGN, ENB 100, ENB 998, is senior charge nurse in critical care, University Hospital Birmingham. Collecting a specimen is often a first crucial step in determining diagnosis and ...
What Do Nurses Know About Urine Cultures? Urinary catheters carry an inherent risk for infection. Many healthcare providers do not follow current guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of ...
On the front lines of the medical battle versus COVID-19, everything is black and white. For the nurses extracting nasal swab samples from possible virus-infected patients, the world is either “dirty ...