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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

Pallimed

Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. We should be including this in our presentations on Hospice and Palliative Medicine 101, or frankly anytime we are asked to speak to outside audiences.

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A Day in the Life: Spinal Cord/Multi Trauma Unit Nurse

Daily Nurse

In 2005, I graduated and obtained a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) certificate from the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC). Being a rehabilitation nurse is admittedly hard work and can present some challenges in managing the expectations of patients and their families. How did you get interested in your particular field?

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Facilitating a knowledge mobilisation approach using critically appraised topics to further evidence- based practice  

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

Stevenson, et al, 2007 8 , suggest that this process allows participants to review the quality of evidence, and translate its meaning into practice, and is a useful approach for those who have limited research experience (Akobeng, 2005). Archives of Disease in Childhood 2005 90: 837-840. Akobeng AK.

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Risks Facing Nurse Practitioners Today

Minority Nurse

An example of an NP’s failure to order diagnostic/laboratory testing includes: A 51-year-old diabetic male patient presented to the NP’s office following an emergency department (ED) visit due to a wound on his right foot that appeared to be infected. Although he was instructed to return in a week for a recheck, he presented two weeks later.

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Simplifying Opioid Conversions

Pallimed

Yet, for the last twenty years of journal articles, books, national presentations, and local presentations that I’m aware of, this is not splattered in flashing neon ALL CAPS at the top of every table. He founded Pallimed in 2005. I believe I am merely naming here a clinical practice which is already widespread!

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Two Childhood Cancer Survivors Share Unbreakable Bond at Children’s Hospital New Orleans

Daily Nurse

I graduated from nursing school in May of 2005. To know what and how to cheer them up or improve their experience and when to sit and be present and supportive. Where did you go to nursing school, and why did you become a nurse? Shinn: Mississippi College School of Nursing.

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Young and Beautiful and Grieving

Journey With Deanna

A Native of Louisiana, Brandie presently lives in Austin Texas and is a mother of 2 boys, 5 and 2. Training and mentoring doulas, companions, guides and midwives since 2005 Just 22, her journey handling the suicide of her mother is amazing. She has insights far beyond her years.

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