The general principles of infection control include universal precautions, also sometimes referred to as standard precautions. These principles are based on assessed risk, and make use of common-sense practice and personal protective equipment (PPE). Standard precautions are used in all patient care settings and in healthcare educational settings. The ...
In-person learning is gradually opening up as the COVID-19 vaccine is distributed. In most states, healthcare workers, including those in emergency medical services, are first in line to get their vaccinations. School nurses, nursing educators, and EMS personnel are often certified CPR instructors on top of their other job duties. As such, they are ...
Although COVID-19 is primarily a virus that effects the respiratory system, healthcare professionals (HCPs) suspect that before long, secondary cardiac effects of the pandemic will start to surface. As TIME magazine puts it in a recent article:
Even as the end of remote learning and remote work slowly comes into view, we can take many lessons from the year that was 2020. Here is hoping we can adopt what we have learned regarding remote classrooms and virtual learning, and use them to our advantage going forward.
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic is the top concern in the healthcare community, people will have other reasons to seek care in a hospital: chemotherapy, trauma and accidents, childbirth. And some of those patients will need blood transfusions.
Simulation in Healthcare Education
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