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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. And then they had to be receiving 48 hours of continuous mechanical ventilation at a minimum and be an adult. Eric: And how did you do that? There were nine disease categories. Eric: Okay.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

And palliative care was as a program was just growing at Penn moving from just consult hospice to actually having a team when I was training. 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.

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

Social Work. It’s something that makes me laugh, because if they follow any of us around, no matter the area we work in, they would understand it is so much more than that. Primary Health, Outpatients & Community Nursing. Psychologist. Researchers and Academics. Respiratory Nursing. Rural & Remote Nursing. The Breakroom.

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