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

GeriPal

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day.

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A Day in the Life: Staff Nurse in the Critical Care Float Pool of a Children’s Hospital

Daily Nurse

My job is to help educate, inform, and comfort patients and families during incredibly challenging times. This means that, at any given time, our sickest of children can be on full-time monitoring, hooked up to ventilators and infusion machines, and under intensive care. That’s where I came in – and ultimately found my calling.

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A Day in the Life of a NICU Nurse

The Nurse Break

Babies may often present very floppy and what we call “hypotonic” which is when their tone is too relaxed, and sometimes “hypertonic” where they appear stiff. They may present with abnormal movements and seizure-like activity. The SensorMedics is a mechanical ventilator known as a High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilator (HFOV).

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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Caring for Someone with ALS

Traditions Health

Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. When to Seek Help Caring for someone with ALS often presents many challenges for the patient’s primary caregiver. ALS can also impair the ability to think and cause significant changes to a person’s memory.

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Resume FAQs for Nursing Students and New Nurses

Nurse.com

You can mention significant experiences you had or skills you developed, such as working with ventilators or assisting with procedures like placing an IV, in a bulleted list below your clinical experience. Peer reviewing can be an effective practice in catching potential errors in formatting or missing information. spring 2022).

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. 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.”