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News–

Rising Gas Prices Affecting Home Health Care Workers

Nursing Homes Unprepared for Pandemic Flu Fallout

Heart Disease Is Linked To Worse Mental Processes

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Tip of the Week — Red Blood Cell (RBC) Lab Values

Nursing Diagnoses and CBC Results Page

For Students: Flashcard Exchange (lab values)

NIH Clinical Center Test page

Cook, L. (1999). The value of lab values. AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 99(5), 66-69,71,7.

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Welcome to Episode 12

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News:

Walmart Announces Plans For In-Store Clinics

HIV and Prechewed Foods

Mock Codes Help Expose Weaknesses

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Tip/Trick of the Week — Liver Function Testing and Labs

NIH Medline on Liver Function Tests (links to individual test pages)

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Welcome to Episode 10

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News:

New Smart Room IDs Staff with a “need to know”

Nova Scotia Health Care Reform

Nursing Home Patients Thrive on Mobility

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Tip/Trick of the Week — What do different lab requests mean?

Pathology Study Site with Lab Panels

Order of Tube Draw article

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A report in the journal Diabetes Care looks at the effects of caffeine consumption on patients with diabetes.  I found the article on this here.

It looks at more evidence on just how powerful a drug caffeine can be.  Researchers tested a small group of people over 72 hours with a continuous blood sugar monitoring device implanted subcutaneously.

After giving the subjects a dose of caffeine equal to four cups of coffee, they watched blood sugar levels throughout the day.  An average increase in blood sugar of 8 percent was noted with peak increases noted just after meals.

Authors caution that they have no explanation for how caffeine directly affects blood sugar but wonder if it may have something to do with increased adrenaline release or perhaps a chemical inhibitory effect on glucose uptake by the body’s cells.

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News:

Nurse Practioners Help Make MDs Money

Reduced Fall Study in Nursing Homes

Call for Infection Nurse Specialist

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Tip/Trick of the Week — CBC Blood Panel Review

NIH Medline CBC Page

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With neo-natal hyperbilirubinemia a rather common occurrence, it would be nice to be able to definitively predict which newborns will present with this problem or not. The alternative until now has been to monitor carefully in the nursery and try to educate parents on what to watch for until the 1 week pediatric visit (if they will show up).

This article over at Medical News Today offers hope for a real alternative to this dilemma. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers in this study of more than 800 newborns found that a review of the pre-discharge bilirubin level charted against the gestational age provided a good predictor of the likelihood of the baby needing to remain in hospital for hyperbilirubinemia treatment. Check out the article for the full details.

A tool for making this determination has been needed for some time and will provide for better care for at risk infants who may not have access to good pediatric follow-up care once they leave the hospital.