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Anxiety Sensitivity Affects Patients’ Care, Recovery

Daily Nurse

Clinicians need to have a better understanding of the potential impact of patients’ anxiety sensitivity, or “fear of fear,” according to an article published in American Journal of Critical Care ( AJCC ). The post Anxiety Sensitivity Affects PatientsCare, Recovery first appeared on Daily Nurse.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Should we keep them on the ventilator?

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CRNA Helped Save Martin Luther King’s Life After 1958 Stabbing

Daily Nurse

As the AANA article put it, the governor was worried “that Harlem Hospital was not fit to treat Dr. King, but he also wanted to show respect for the Black community by endorsing Harlem Hospital and its staff.” She is confident that “The time saved by [performing the surgery] then and there at Harlem Hospital did save King’s life.”

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! It’s just an interference with good patient care. Respectful disagreement is in short supply these days. Is that right?

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HSPN ELEVATE: Hospice Clinical Innovation Trends

Hospice News

This article is sponsored by Axxess. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Faith Protsman, regional medical director at VITAS Healthcare, Raianne Melton, senior clinical manager of professional service at Axxess, and Cheryl Hamilton Fried, president & CEO at Blue Ridge Hospice. HSPN: Thank you.

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Resume FAQs for Nursing Students and New Nurses

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You can mention significant experiences you had or skills you developed, such as working with ventilators or assisting with procedures like placing an IV, in a bulleted list below your clinical experience. In fact, an article in the Journal of Nursing Education showed how helpful this practice can be. spring 2022).

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