Document Nursing Ventilator 
GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. Should we keep them on the ventilator? They have one.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. Welcome, Karl.
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Hospice News
MAY 17, 2023
Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Nursing recently conducted a meta-analysis of studies involving more than 33,000 cancer patients to evaluate the relationship between advance care planning and utilization of aggressive versus comfort-focused care.
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
APRIL 4, 2024
Missouri set a very high bar, explicit written documentation that applies to this specific circumstance, which the Cruzan’s eventually cleared. But legislation can change, clinical practice can change, but I think what we’ll talk about today is how we’re now opening the door to conversations rather than legal rules and documents.
Daily Nurse
MARCH 28, 2023
The team developed a paper-based assessment tool with a series of Yes/No items related to the ABCDEF bundle, allowing a nurse observer to circle whether an element had been addressed during rounds Two nurses performed in-person observations of multidisciplinary morning rounds on 15 observation days in the fall of 2021.
Minority Nurse
OCTOBER 5, 2023
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