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Making every word count: The role of AAC in LTC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

For many individuals we serve who present with chronic, progressive and/or neurological conditions, this is what they face daily. Consider the case of a resident recovering from a traumatic brain injury and temporarily reliant on a ventilator. End-of-life care in LTC often presents unique communication challenges.

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NHS staff need adequate RPE and they need it NOW

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This is discussed eloquently by Professor Raymond Agius (@ProfEmer) and colleagues in a BMJ blog. The decision to wear an FFP3 respirator/hood should be based on clinical risk assessment e.g. task being undertaken, the presenting symptoms, the infectious state of the patient, risk of acquisition and the availability of treatment.

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Resume FAQs for Nursing Students and New Nurses

Nurse.com

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. Who you are — A cover letter presents an opportunity to showcase who you are. spring 2022).

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Case Management Fast-Growing Role, Despite Pandemic Difficulties

Nurse.com

But now, there were many ventilator-dependent patients, for example, who had to be placed in facilities that the case managers were unfamiliar with and in many cases didn’t even know where these facilities were located.”. The post Case Management Fast-Growing Role, Despite Pandemic Difficulties appeared first on Nurse.com Blog.

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A Day in the Life: Staff Nurse in the Critical Care Float Pool of a Children’s Hospital

Daily Nurse

This means that, at any given time, our sickest of children can be on full-time monitoring, hooked up to ventilators and infusion machines, and under intensive care. And the language, education, and cultural barriers that present with the families I deal with exacerbate the importance of establishing trust.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal. How do I reconcile these two issues? Lauren: Shock.

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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!) I’d be willing to take some time on a mechanical ventilation machine to live longer.” And so the idea that patients are walking around with these on their shoulder like, “Hey, I got the mechanical ventilation preference, just want to make sure.”