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Rising measles activity in the United States is renewing attention on nursing preparedness, early recognition, isolation procedures, and complication monitoring.

The use of a BD Vacutainer Z-tube, which costs approximately $0.25 to $0.50 per tube, represents a highly cost-effective intervention, preventing contamination and potentially saving nearly $11,000 per patient.

Although 58% of nurses believe they always explain things clearly, only 7% report that their patients always hear them.

For many years, researchers relied on hospital billing codes to identify sepsis cases. However, diagnosis and coding practices vary across hospitals and are changing over time, leading to uncertainty about how often sepsis truly occurs.

“When I ask hospitals about who is leading their immediate-use compounding initiatives, sometimes I get a blank stare from the pharmacy department, and often an even more blank stare from nursing.”