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NJ ICU Nurse Joyce Park Saves Life of Car Accident Victim

Daily Nurse

Her chest compressions were successful, and she resuscitated him after about 30 seconds. Park says she has resuscitated patients multiple times during her seven years as a nurse but never in an everyday situation like the one she encountered this evening. The 35-year-old nurse’s training kicked in.

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Simulation Helps Clinicians Prepare for High-Risk Procedures

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The surgery involves reopening the patient’s chest after defibrillation did not resuscitate them. Participants also indicated understanding the differences between guidelines for resuscitating patients who experience cardiac arrest after cardiac surgery and the more commonly used Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support protocol.

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As Your Nursing Resume Gathers Dust

Daily Nurse

If you haven’t checked your resume for more than a year — or you don’t even know where you have a copy, digital or otherwise — then some resume resuscitation is needed ASAP. That stress is entirely avoidable if they only look over their resume once a year.

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Exploring Ethnic Minority Bystander CPR: British Sikh Nurses’ #ReStartAHeart Campaign

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Recognising the pressing need for action, British Sikh Nurses (BSN) initiated a groundbreaking campaign for CPR training in partnership with the Resuscitation Council UK called the #ReStartAHeart Campaign. The use of a ‘pillow partner’ as a simple, cost-effective, and accessible tool to teach bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills.

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Faith-based nursing: Making Faith Community nursing inclusive

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This weeks’ blog is from Rohit Sagoo, Founder and Director, British Sikh Nurses , Community project with the Resuscitation Council UK. The post Faith-based nursing: Making Faith Community nursing inclusive appeared first on Evidence-Based Nursing blog. Journal of Christian Nursing, 35(2), 112-119.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

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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.

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Risk of Respiratory Failure Evolves After Sepsis Onset

Daily Nurse

The researchers recommend future proactive studies focusing on the effects of fluid resuscitation and other care processes on the need for mechanical ventilation in this patient population. Risks decreased with time for the SOFA score and congestive heart failure and varied for four comorbidities and three culture results.