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CSI Academy Teams to Focus on Implementing HWE Standards

Daily Nurse

Building on CSI Academy’s successful 11-year history and the documented benefits of sustaining an HWE, AACN has established a special version of its 12-month, team-oriented CSI program that will focus on the implementation of “ AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments ” (HWE standards).

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Take Ownership of Your Nursing Knowledge and Skills

Minority Nurse

Nurses are invaluable members of the healthcare workforce, and when you’re proactively building a nursing career that you can fully embrace and be proud of, there are plenty of strategies and mindset hacks to consider. You’re a valuable member of the healthcare community, and owning your worth is a powerful place to be.

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A Career In NICU Nursing

Diversity Nursing

These nurseries may provide assisted ventilation on an interim basis until the infant’s condition either soon improves or the infant can be transferred to a higher-level facility. documenting patient history. creating care plans with other healthcare providers. Level III: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

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Case Management Fast-Growing Role, Despite Pandemic Difficulties

Nurse.com

And throughout the COVID-19 pandemic , case managers have assumed even greater, more visible roles as hospitals and healthcare facilities have struggled to navigate unfamiliar terrain. By now, the hurdles that healthcare workers in virtually every setting faced at the onset of the pandemic are well-documented.

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An Introduction to Advance Directives

Traditions Health

An Introduction to Advance Directives When someone reaches the end of their life, illness or aging may make it difficult to communicate with family and healthcare providers. When creating your first advance directive, you can do the following: Ask your healthcare provider about all the end-of-life care alternatives available to you.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So like as an example, in New York State, if someone has no healthcare proxy that they’ve designated, there is a legal structure by which we can assign a surrogate, whereas other states don’t have that same structure. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

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.

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