Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. From daily living activities such as shopping, cooking, and cleaning, to more demanding activities such as bathing or feeding, caring for an ALS patient can take a toll.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This ensures that the family and the care team honor the patient’s wishes like determining do not resuscitate (DNR) status, using ventilator support, and providing enteral feedings. Hospice nurses can also document issues of personal importance. Let us help you prepare for your hospice and palliative nurse certification exam.

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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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. I can on one hand count the patients I’ve cared for who didn’t want mechanical ventilation. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. We changed our name. Good to know.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Advance directives may be changed at any time as long as you are of sound mind to do so; just be sure any changes are shared with your physician and family.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Advance directives may be changed at any time as long as you are of sound mind to do so; just be sure any changes are shared with your physician and family.

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Hope Hospice

APRIL 28, 2020

Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation. Advance directives may be changed at any time as long as you are of sound mind to do so; just be sure any changes are shared with your physician and family.

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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. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. That will be the last one in his life.

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