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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

The absence of arterial blood pressure defines cardiac arrest and serves as a definitive endpoint for resuscitative efforts. Category: Fundamentals Arterial puncture is the most accurate blood sampling technique for true arterial blood gas and acid-base determination.

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Nursing Officer in the Royal Australian Navy as a Reservist

The Nurse Break

Flying into Hawaii and joining a USNS warship – Millinocket, life for the next six weeks was definitely going to be life changing. With a combination of both fear and sheer exhilaration I embraced the wildness of the ocean and gathered a greater appreciation of the sea – who does this sort of thing!!

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How To Become a Registered Nurse

Nurse.com

These broad definitions, however, do not capture the vast array of a nurse’s responsibilities and the talents they require. Performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. In essence, RNs: Provide and coordinate patient care as part of a team of healthcare providers and clinicians. Suctioning airways.

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Longleaf Medical Director: Hospice Care Needs a ‘Revolution’ 

Hospice News

The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. Our definitions of what value needs to be more nuanced. The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. It needs to capture acuity.

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Journey into the Life of a Rescue Flight Nurse

The Nurse Break

Most transfers from the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Brisbane base are inter-facility transfers to secondary or tertiary hospitals for definitive patient care. Some patients require immediate transfer for definitive care where others without interventions will deteriorate during the flight.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

James Tulsky did a study in the late 80s looking at how residents at UCSF talked about code status, where the paradigmatic way was, if your heart stops, do you want us to resuscitate it? Sunita: Oh, I was going to, just to clarify what I had said before, it’s definitely not that we based things solely on biology, for sure.

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The intense world of a Trauma Nurse (Part One)

The Nurse Break

There are lots of different definitions for trauma, physical and mental, minor to catastrophic, but my role as a Trauma CNC is well defined. The Trauma CNC acts as the scribe and nurse team leader in the resuscitation room at our institution. People think it is sexy and exciting and all about the resuscitation.