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Choosing a Crash Cart for Your Healthcare Facility

DiaMedical USA offers crash carts that come in various sizes, configurations and materials. Each type of crash cart has its own benefits so that resuscitations are properly handled. The following article specifies these considerations so that you have a better understanding when choosing the right crash cart for your hospital or healthcare facility.

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Simulation Code Medication

Every second counts during medical emergencies and patient resuscitations, which is why school training is so critical. Students must be able to quickly identify medications and administer them correctly before entering real life situations. Loaded Emergency Crash Carts with SimRx simulated code meds are essential for both pediatric and adult resuscitation training. Here is a quick overview of the code meds that are used to treat irregular heart rhythms and cardiopulmonary arrest:

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Tuesday Teachings: Making Your Own Simulated Vomit- Advancing Education

In todays episode our nurse educator, Sally O'Meara will explain how to increase student education and student experience. At DiaMedical USA our mission is simple, improve the quality of healthcare by providing innovative tools like our Tuesday Teachings series to help educate the next generation of medical professionals.

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SimRx Simulated Code Medication: Tuesday Teachings - Product Knowledge

In this Tuesday Teachings episode, our nurse educator discusses the benefits of implementing SimRx code medications by SimLabSolutions into your simulations. Every second counts during medical emergencies and patient resuscitation, and mock codes are a great way for students and healthcare professionals to improve self confidence, teamwork and response time. These simulated code medications are ideal tools to train dosing and administration techniques for resuscitation.

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Preparing to Run Mock Codes With Nursing Students

Resuscitation of a patient in cardiac arrest is one of the most complex and stressful situations that healthcare providers experience. Early exposure to patient resuscitation procedures with mock code simulations increase student confidence and minimize hesitation when immediate action is needed. This article will provide tips for instructors as they set up simulations labs to prepare students for real code blue situations.

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Therapeutic Support Surfaces in the Maternity Unit

Even though pressure sores are less common in maternity units than in other hospital areas, they can develop quickly in women during labor. For new mothers, this skin breakdown is a distressing complication. With relevant knowledge, however, clinicians can help prevent the development of pressure sores in the maternity setting. This article will describe risk factors for maternal pressure ulcers and how therapeutic support surfaces can help prevent the development of decubitus ulcers in obstetrical patients.

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Best Practices for Debriefing After Mock Codes

Debriefing is largely considered to be the most important part of simulation training. Because resuscitation is complex and emotionally stressful, debriefing allows participants to process and reflect upon the experience. They also identify opportunities for improvement in order to perform more effectively during real patient resuscitations. In order for this to happen, however, the debriefing session must support confidentiality, trust, self-analysis, and open communication. This article will describe some of the techniques that educators can use to promote the best possible learning outcomes for participants.

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Types of Dressings For Decubitus Ulcers

The days of plain gauze are long gone in favor of advanced materials that can absorb large amounts of drainage without the need for frequent dressing changes. Decubitus ulcer dressings provide optimal and advanced care for healing and protecting the wounds from worse conditions and infection. Some dressings can even provide thermal insulation, optimize the pH of the wound bed, and remove proteases from wound fluid. This article will provide a brief overview of the main types and their indications for use.

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Tuesday Teachings: SimServeRx Advanced Bedside Smart Cart ESS - Product Knowledge

The SimServeRx Advanced Bedside Smart Cart ESS provides a comprehensive solution for realistic simulation in any setting. It is a mobile automated medication administration system that was designed specifically for healthcare education. Instructors can simulate the entire medication administration process right in the classroom or at the patient’s bedside in a SimLab.

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How Do Barcode Scanners Increase Patient Safety?

Healthcare providers are constantly challenged to ensure that each patient receives the correct treatments and medications. QR and 2D Barcode scanning is now used routinely to confirm that practitioners are administering treatments to the correct patient. It is also used in other applications to make healthcare more accurate and prevent dangerous medical errors. In this blog, we will go more in depth with this technology and how it is used to promote patient safety.

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Teaching Students How To Identify Medication Errors

It is a common misconception among beginning nursing students that every medication listed for patient’s is safe to administer. What they don’t realize is that patient condition’s can change or mistakes can happen during order entry. Nurses must use their critical thinking skills during each step of medication administration to protect patients from dangerous side effects, drug interactions and contraindications. In this article, we will look at how instructors can add embedded errors into simulations to help prevent students from making medication errors in clinical practice.

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Tuesday Teachings: SimServeRx Medication Dispensing System - Product Knowledge

The SimServeRx Supply Cabinet provides a comprehensive solution for realistic simulation in any setting. It is a mobile automated dispensing system that was designed specifically for healthcare education. Instructors can simulate the entire medication administration process right in the classroom or at the patient’s bedside in a SimLab. In today’s episode our nurse educator, Sally O’Meara, will explain the features included in the SimServeRx Supply Cabinet and how it can be used in a variety of patient care scenarios.  At DiaMedical USA our mission is simple: improve the quality of healthcare by providing innovative tools like our Tuesday Teachings series to help educate the next generation of medical professionals.

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Administering and Dispensing Medications in Simulation

Automated Medication Dispensing Systems have recently become essential fixtures in hospitals. They are used to prevent medication errors, streamline inventory management, and reduce diversion of controlled substances. They are also complex systems that require hands-on training before use with patients in clinical settings. SimServeRx Dispensing Carts and Cabinets were designed for this very purpose. In this blog, we will look at how the SimServeRx system is used to teach pharmacy and nursing students how to use automated medication dispensing systems.

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Tuesday Teachings: Simulated Medication Administration

The SimServeRx Advanced Bedside Smartcart ESS provides a comprehensive solution for realistic simulation in simulated medication administration. It is a mobile automated medication administration system that was designed specifically for healthcare education. Instructors can simulate the entire medication administration process right in the classroom or at the patient’s bedside in a SimLab.

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Q&A: Answers for Common Questions About At-Home COVID-19 Tests

At-home COVID tests are a useful tool as the world braces for the latest surge in cases. They sacrifice some accuracy for speedy results, but they can help people make decisions about when to isolate themselves. At-home testing is used with social distancing, masks and hand-washing to control the spread of COVID infection. In this blog, we will look at when at-home COVID tests should be performed, how they differ from PCR tests, and what the results mean.

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Repairing Medical Infusion Pumps

There’s nothing worse than having students ready to learn about IV therapy and the infusion pump doesn’t work. Malfunctioning equipment is costly in terms of both money and time. Thankfully, regular cleaning and maintenance can help keep this from happening to you! In this blog, we will look at common infusion pump problems and how to create a maintenance plan to keep them from occurring.

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Preventing Medication Errors in IV Therapy

Finding solutions to prevent infusion therapy errors represents a pressing patient safety priority. Educators have routinely used infusion pumps with simulated IV fluids to teach students best practices for medication administration. In this blog, we will look at how simulation can be used to help students identify potential medication errors prior to administration.

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Tuesday Teachings: Creating a Closed System for IV Simulations - Advancing Education

In this episode of Tuesday Teaching’s our nurse educator, Sally O’Meara, provides tips that improve simulation experience and engagement. Learn how to created a closed system for IV simulations with simple products. At DiaMedical USA our mission is simple: improve the quality of healthcare by providing innovative tools like our Tuesday Teachings series to help educate the next generation of medical professionals.

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Tuesday Teachings: Alaris Medley Infusion Pump Training - Simulation Innovation

The Alaris Medley Infusion Pump System provides a comprehensive solution for realistic simulation in any setting. Alaris Medley modules work together to deliver infusions and protect patients from medication errors. Up to four Modules can be connected on one Point of Care unit for patient monitoring and medication delivery.

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Alaris Medley Infusion Pump System: Tuesday Teachings - Product Knowledge

The Alaris Medley Infusion Pump System provides a comprehensive solution for realistic simulation in any setting. Alaris Medley modules work together to deliver infusions and protect patients from medication errors. Up to four Modules can be connected on one Point of Care unit for patient monitoring and medication delivery.

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