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The Overlooked Crisis: Trauma Care for Older Adults in a Strained Nursing Workforce

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This weeks blog is written by Hanna Jrbrink, a specialist nurse surgical care, PhD student, and research nurse at the Department of surgery and trauma care, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden. Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine. Schuster S, Singler K, Lim S, Machner M, Dbler K, Dormann H.

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Top Nursing Certifications: More Than CPR

Daily Nurse

PALS courses cover various topics such as advanced pediatric assessments, medication administration for pediatric emergencies, life support for children, and post-resuscitation care. CGN coursework explores care planning for the elderly, geriatric nursing principles, medication management, and end-of-life care.

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Advocating for Critical Care Transport Nurses

Minority Nurse

In the CFRN certification program, the emphasis on resuscitation and “special populations” were both increased due to greater volumes of high acuity patients transported by air and to adequately address essential knowledge regarding the special needs of obstetrical, neonatal/pediatric, geriatric, and bariatric populations.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. ” Somebody in the comments on their blog response said, “Did you check the date? Bill: Thank you. Brad: Thank you.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

As we’ve written about on GeriPal when we were a blog (a decade ago!) But when the doctor explained the choices between, you can either have CPR or have a do not resuscitate order, or you can have CPR or allow a natural death. When it was do not resuscitate, fewer people chose it. Amber: Norm is, yeah. Thanks everybody.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

GeriPal

If you look at the recordings of discussions they have with their doctors and even sort of the intonation when they talked about resuscitation, maybe that gives you information you could use to predict. Now there’s looking at online behavior. Teva has this really nice paper. So how authentic is that to represent myself?

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