Caregiver Document Ventilator 
Nurse.com
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
The process helps primary care professionals identify a person’s care goals and document and communicate their medical and personal preferences. “If Documenting care preferences in advance — Planning care early in the disease process is a meaningful way to identify, document, and communicate a patient’s goals. Refusing care.
Hospice News
JANUARY 31, 2024
Facilitating Better Communication Many patients in the ICU today have serious, life-limiting illnesses that may require family members to make urgent, difficult life-or-death decisions that may not be covered in written documents.
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GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary The proportion of people living with dementia who identify as Black/African Americans is on the rise , and so too are the proportion of caregivers who identify as Black/African American. Why a focus on Black/African American caregivers and people with dementia? We talk in particular about: Terminology.
Hospice News
MAY 17, 2023
Those were a group of outcomes that we looked at that included mechanical ventilation, hospital admissions within the last 30 days of life, intensive care unit admissions, receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and chemotherapy within the last two weeks of life. So these are generally seen as treatments that are futile.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. Because we haven’t done our job to document the value of what we’re doing. And I use that as that documentation about what they want, recognizing that not everybody does that. Karl: Okay.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. Eric: Okay.
GeriPal
JULY 11, 2024
They’re confused a lot of the time, and so we’re doing a ton of caregiver support. I think one of the challenges, especially about liver, is it doesn’t have a dialysis, it doesn’t have an ecMo, it doesn’t have a ventilator. What’s the goal? And that is how, you know, things get decided.
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