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BLS vs CPR – The Difference Between BLS and CPR (Hint: They're not the same)

One common challenge for people seeking a CPR vs. BLS certification is figuring out whether BLS and CPR are the same thing. In terms of a medical emergency, BLS (which stands for Basic Life Support) typically involves care that falls outside the scope of something one would learn in a

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Does CPR Break Ribs?

The reality is that injury during CPR isn’t all that uncommon. In fact, a significant portion of those who receive CPR end up with broken ribs or other bones as a result. Here's what to expect.

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Chest Compressions 101: How Deep and at What Rate Should Chest Compressions Be?

Performing chest compressions is one of the most important components of life-saving resuscitation. In fact, in many cases – particularly those in which the person resuscitating is untrained – compression-only CPR (that is, resuscitation without rescue breathing) is recommended. This demonstrates how vital and effective chest compressions are in helping someone survive

Tips for Choosing a Nursing Specialty

Tips for Choosing a Nursing Specialty

Nursing is a rewarding career with many options. However, this range of possibilities can make it challenging to decide on a specialty. To determine which area you might most enjoy, consider your personality type as well as what type of work environment you prefer. Work Setting To begin, determining where

Tips For New ICU Nurses

Tips For New ICU Nurses

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at a hospital can be overwhelming, especially when you’re new to the job. To ease the transition to your new work environment, we’ve put together these tips to help you excel. Learn Assertiveness If you’re a naturally assertive person, you’ll have

10 Qualities That All Great Nurses Share

10 Qualities That All Great Nurses Share

Being a good nurse requires a particular personality type and specific qualities. Of course, people can become great nurses without being born with these attributes, as well. It just requires learning certain skills. Either way, great nurses all share these qualities. Caring Being in the hospital is a trying time

How to Cope With Patient Death

How to Cope With Patient Death

Throughout your nursing career, there will come times when you experience the death of a patient. For those working in hospice, long-term care, or ICU units, this is almost for certain. While it is an expected part of the job, that expectation doesn’t make coping with the death of

Tips To Be A Better Doctor

Tips To Be A Better Doctor

There’s always room for improvement in a person’s career and life. Self improvement, whether professional or personal, is an ongoing process that requires daily attention. Working to be a better doctor will provide a goal to work towards, while also improving your career both quantitatively and qualitatively. Whether

How Augmented Reality is Being Used in Healthcare

How Augmented Reality is Being Used in Healthcare

Advances in computer technology regularly disrupt the status quo these days. Still, when it comes to the future and the “next big thing,” it can sometimes be challenging to separate the hype and conjecture from actual, tangible developments. As the healthcare industry implements advanced technology to improve processes and offer

How Meditation Can Help You Manage Stress in Healthcare

How Meditation Can Help You Manage Stress in Healthcare

Working in healthcare can be stressful due to its fast-paced nature and unpredictability of day-to-day happenings. Stress is the body and mind’s reaction to challenging circumstances that manifests in feelings of emotional turmoil and physical tension. Unfortunately, if this is left unaddressed, you could experience a snowball effect of

Squeeze Fitness Into Your Busy Nursing Schedule With These Tips

Squeeze Fitness Into Your Busy Nursing Schedule With These Tips

Work-life balance is not always easy to manage around a nursing schedule. If you work in a hospital, you could be scheduled for any day of the week, mornings, afternoons, or nights, and up to twelve-hour shifts. While your employer may offer you some consistency in your shifts, especially as

A Guide to Opening Your Private Practice

A Guide to Opening Your Private Practice

After committing years of hard work and experience to your medical practice, you’ve recognized that you possess a unique set of skills and innovative thinking to open your own practice. By establishing your practice, you will become the main boss and administrator to serve patients in your community. But

4 Soft Skills That Strong Healthcare Professionals Must Have

4 Soft Skills That Strong Healthcare Professionals Must Have

The healthcare field is complicated. You need to be prepared for any type of health issue or patient who enters your workplace. After years of education and training, you need to master all the fine technical details you’ve learned. That way, you know the best treatment recommendations or methods

How to Establish Work-Life Balance as a Medical Professional

How to Establish Work-Life Balance as a Medical Professional

The medical field is more than a career stream. It becomes a part of your lifestyle. Once you’re in the thick of your medical profession, you may feel that after committing endless hours to your field, you have no energy to focus on anything else in your life. If

Online ACLS Certification – Frequently Asked Questions

Online ACLS Certification – Frequently Asked Questions

Obtaining your Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification via traditional methods, like sitting in a classroom for hours on end, can be a challenge for a number of reasons. Thankfully, a growing number of hospitals and health care facilities are now allowing their employees to complete their ACLS certification right

BLS Basics: Positioning Best Practices

BLS Basics: Positioning Best Practices

When performing basic life support in the field, it’s absolutely essential that the patient as well as those delivering the care be in the best possible positions. While some instances may find the victim in an awkward position due to incapacitation, the chest compressions of BLS rely heavily on

ACLS Standards: Post-Cardiac Arrest Best Practices

ACLS Standards: Post-Cardiac Arrest Best Practices

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), 475,000 Americans die each and every year due to cardiac arrest. What’s more, about 90% of people who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (approximately 350,000) will lose their lives as a result. Conversely, nearly 45% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims

How to Tell if Someone Needs CPR

How to Tell if Someone Needs CPR

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a life-saving practice that involves the combination of chest compressions and rescue breathing. If a person has stopped breathing or blood is not adequately being circulated throughout his or her body, administering CPR quickly and correctly can help to restore circulation of blood to the brain

What if I Break Someone’s Ribs Performing CPR?

What if I Break Someone’s Ribs Performing CPR?

It’s one thing to become certified in CPR. It’s an entirely different thing to actually apply those skills to a real-life situation. One of the biggest concerns that come with performing CPR for the first time on an actual person is whether or not you will accidentally cause

What Is the History of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)?

What Is the History of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)?

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation – otherwise known as CPR – has literally been a lifesaver for hundreds of years. With changes to the guidelines and new recommendations to optimize CPR techniques being released on an almost annual basis, this emergency medical procedure may certainly seem modern, but the fact is, it’s a procedure

The 10 Most Crucial Components of CPR for BLS Providers

The 10 Most Crucial Components of CPR for BLS Providers

Provided is a summarized list of the most important things you will learn to perform high-quality CPR in either your BLS or CPR course.

What is Quantitative Waveform Capnography?

What is Quantitative Waveform Capnography?

Quantitative waveform capnography involves the continuous, non-invasive measurement of end-tidal carbon dioxide / ETCO2, also known as PetCO2. Quantitative waveform capnography is one of the many critical topics covered in ACLS.

The Detrimental Effects of Excessive Ventilation During Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation

The Detrimental Effects of Excessive Ventilation During Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation

Until recently, medical professionals believed that oxygenating a patient experiencing cardiac arrest was the most fundamental component of resuscitation efforts. It’s since been discovered, that too much ventilation can actually have a negative impact on survival rates.

5 Workplaces that Need CPR Training (That Aren’t Healthcare Related)

5 Workplaces that Need CPR Training (That Aren’t Healthcare Related)

Being trained in basic first aid is something that can be beneficial in just about any industry. This is especially the case given the fact that more than one million people in the U.S. suffer from a heart attack each year and nearly half of the deaths that occur

7 Steps to Successfully Completing Your Medical Certification Online

7 Steps to Successfully Completing Your Medical Certification Online

Medical certifications like ACLS, PALS, BLS or CPR are a necessity for many positions in healthcare. But for most busy professionals, finding the time to sit in a classroom is quite challenging. Thankfully there’s now the option to obtain these credentials online, from the comfort of your own home