Tag: wellness
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Are Medication Errors the Number One Cause of Death in the United States?
By Paul M. Dohse, RN, CDP The big three of yearly medical mortality in the U.S. are widely accepted as heart disease, cancer, and respiratory disease in that order. Heart disease will kill around 700,000[1], Cancer, 626,140[2], and chronic respiratory diseases, 145,643.[3] In 2016, an 8-year study by John Hopkins University[4] published in the The…
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A Nursing Old Wives’ Tale: Effective CPR Always Results In Extensive Rib Fractures
Written by Paul M. Dohse, LPN, ADN, CDP. In nurse training, there is a heavy emphasis on fact-based care or “best practice.” However, once nurses are working the floor, little additional research or study takes place, and seemingly, fact-based care, in many cases, is replaced with opinion, ideology, and in more recent times, politics. Nurses…
