Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 22, 2023

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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Nurse.com

AUGUST 16, 2022

Among some of the topics I’ve addressed are the failure to report major changes in a patient’s condition and the necessity of accurate documentation in a patient’s medical record in whatever form. On the third day of the patient’s hospitalization, the physician documented that the patient was constipated and had abdominal discomfort.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Equipment includes tools and machines you may use repeatedly, like pulse oximeters and ventilators. Additionally, you might create categories associated with different types of care, like wound care or intravenous therapy, or other activities you perform during the day, like sterilization or documentation.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 5, 2023

If it wasn’t documented, it never happened” was one truism I heard repeatedly during my nursing education, and I never forgot it. Your Multifaceted Skills When we think of nursing skills , we often think of so-called hard skills like venipuncture, rhythm interpretation, wound debridement, or ventilator management. What sticks with you?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.” ” You talk about this too, even in your own training, where even around CPR, the training is like he might need a ventilator if he couldn’t protect his airway.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’re able to provide IV treatments, and we’re even able to do home extubations with ventilator support. Imagine a world where you’re a triage nurse, can do a telehealth visit maybe using FaceTime, using our dedicated platform, and do a complete visit documentation, rather than going out to do a visit.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

Each new rotation in a COVID-19 ICU made us feel like we were patients who had just undergone CPR, been brought back to life, and were back on a ventilator for the next round. Do I take vitals every hour or every four hours?

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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.

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Diversity Nursing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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. Level III: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Nurses working in the NICU have a wide variety of responsibilities.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that? Who are they?

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

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. And I will document everything they express to me in a obviously non encephalopathic state. And that is how, you know, things get decided. If he has no capacity.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So whether or not somebody wants to be on CPR or ventilator, that sort of thing. What that looks like, to some degree, by having a conversation, by documenting wishes, we can potentially influence what that looks like and what that experience is for that person who is dying and then also for family members who are left behind.

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Nurse.com

JULY 1, 2022

By now, the hurdles that healthcare workers in virtually every setting faced at the onset of the pandemic are well-documented. They’ve been integral in ensuring that extant procedures function as intended, and new protocols are adhered to and address the needs of large, diverse patient groups. Nurse case managers were certainly no exception.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Do you and your loved ones have an advance healthcare directive as well as the other documents necessary for managing legal and financial issues (e.g., This couple did not have advance healthcare directives nor were documents in place that would enable the wife to handle her husband’s independent financial accounts and property.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 16, 2023

However, even if the document is extremely thorough, there’s still a chance that something unexpected will happen. This will ensure they understand everything in the document, and you will be able to answer any of their questions about your treatment preferences. If you want your organs to be donated. Gives copies to your loved ones.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 16, 2022

Among some of the topics I’ve addressed are the failure to report major changes in a patient’s condition and the necessity of accurate documentation in a patient’s medical record in whatever form. On the third day of the patient’s hospitalization, the physician documented that the patient was constipated and had abdominal discomfort.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself. Living wills are legal documents that outline a person’s wishes for end-of-life medical care. When it comes to estate planning, one of the most important documents you can have is a living will.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden. And so it’s within normal practice to have a reasoning and be accountable for it and document that. Because that’s what we do.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 26, 2023

Advanced Directives Advanced directives , sometimes referred to as living wills, are documents that provide direction for end-of-life care decisions. These documents allow individuals to plan ahead and specify their wishes in case of medical emergencies or chronic medical conditions.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

Each new rotation in a COVID-19 ICU made us feel like we were patients who had just undergone CPR, been brought back to life, and were back on a ventilator for the next round. Do I take vitals every hour or every four hours?

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Without this shared knowledge, the likelihood of Alice’s wishes being respected and carried out decreases. Investigate instances where communication practices result in negative outcomes.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 1, 2022

So, it’s important the patient is well secured on our stretcher and to ensure our monitor, ventilator and infusion pumps are well secured on our bridge. I will complete all necessary clinical interventions/care and then document any treatment. What are some unique clinical considerations that Flight Nurses need to address?

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

So I think the practical implementation may be very challenging for this as well as just the documentation of whether or not somebody’s been vaccinated. And I don’t think people think to bring those things when they’re really sick in coming to the hospital. Emily: Yeah.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 23, 2022

It has been well documented that during a disaster the bulk (and often, the most critically injured) of patients will arrive by their own means and not by ambulance, and that is exactly what happened. We had no idea what was going to happen next and we were all dreading the arrival of more seriously burned people.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Potential that documenting advance directives without a robust conversation about prognosis might have led to these findings. Jennifer 17:26 Documentation of end of life preferences. And we looked at newly documented end of life preferences. Did it increase documentation? Eric 21:55 And that’s new documentation.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

Titration of ventilation settings, CRRT troubleshooting, vasopressor management, and supporting loved ones, all the while trying to manage documentation and patients who are critically unwell or aggressive as a result of ICU delirium.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. Eric: While they’re ventilated in the ICU, would you do that too? Lauren: Shock.

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