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What is Rapid Response Nursing? 

Daily Nurse

The campaign highlighted six critical interventions: Rapid Response Teams Improved Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction Medication Reconciliation Preventing Central Line Infections Preventing Surgical Site Infections Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia IHI reported in 2016 that the first ten years saw 75% of U.S.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

James Tulsky did a study in the late 80s looking at how residents at UCSF talked about code status, where the paradigmatic way was, if your heart stops, do you want us to resuscitate it? 20 years later, Wendy Anderson did exactly the same study and found that residents at UCSF used exactly the same language.

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The ultimate nursing guide to sepsis

The Nurse Break

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock (2016) defines sepsis as “life threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection”. while drawing on multiple data sources to form a clinical diagnosis (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2016).

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From Public Health Advisor to Congressional Candidate: Meet Lauren Underwood

Minority Nurse

And so, when the election happened in 2016 we were working on the water crisis in Flint. What we are seeing now in order to resuscitate it takes 2-3 doses of Narcan because the drugs are so strong. We worked on emerging infectious diseases (e.g., I stayed in the administration until the very end, the last day.