Management Journal of Nursing

Nurses Don't Eat Their Young - Unless You Believe It

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This article discusses that through early nurse conditioning, new nurses are set up to believe that experienced nurses “eat their young.” This conditioning perpetuates the stereotype and thus becomes part of the problem and culture. One new nurse’s journey to deny this teaching and be open to experienced nurses’ help and criticism may prove that an adjustment in perspective and how we begin to teach new nurses to relate to experienced nurses might help change this culture and the new nurse’s first year on the floor.

Submitted by Vanessa B. Smith, BA, RN

Pressure Ulcers Management

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Pressure ulcers are a major complication associated with the loss of mobility, activity, increased moisture, poor nutrition, friction, shear, and altered sensory perception. They are caused by unrelieved compression of the blood vessels and tissues resulting in the lymphatic system not filtering waste products.

Submitted by Wendy Trimboli, MA, BSN, RN, CIC, CPHQ, LNHA. Administrator for Oceanview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC

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