Nursing Mnemonics and Tips: Auscultations of Heart Sounds S2 sounds are loudest at the base S1 is loudest at the apex … [Read more...] about Nursing Mnemonics and Tips: Auscultations of Heart Sounds

Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital is now home to a larger-than-life “Scan-Castle” — a new $6 million beach-themed pediatric MRI scanner. The scanner, which opened two weeks ago, is the same top-of-the-line model that the hospital has used for many years on both adult and child patients, but it is the first in Connecticut to be used only for children. The suite is visually … [Read more...] about New MRI scanner, for kids only, unveiled at YNHH

During contractions, the abdomen becomes hard. Between contractions, the uterus relaxes and the abdomen becomes soft. The way a contraction feels is different for each woman, and may feel different from one pregnancy to the next. But labor contractions usually cause discomfort or a dull ache in your back and lower abdomen, along with pressure in the pelvis. Contractions move in … [Read more...] about Nursing Mnemonics and Tips: Clue To Contractions

The ECG paper is mostly standardised - Each large square on the paper represents 0.2 seconds - Each small square represents 0.04 seconds - 5 large squares therefore = 1 second - 300 large squares = 1 minute - To calculate heart rate – count large squares within an R-R interval & divide 300 by this number P-waves P-waves represent atrial depolarisation There should … [Read more...] about How To Read An ECG

Nursing Mnemonics: Cardiac Output Cardiac Output = Heart Rate x Stroke Volume (CO = HR x SV) … [Read more...] about Nursing Mnemonics: Cardiac Output