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

Daily Nurse

As nurses reading this know (and a point of interest for budding nurses), you wear many hats and are responsible for critical touchpoints along the patient care continuum. In my current role, I work with a few patients at a time, continually monitoring and assessing their situation. Explain what you do in your role.

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Resume FAQs for Nursing Students and New Nurses

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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. Who you are — A cover letter presents an opportunity to showcase who you are. spring 2022).

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. It’s just an interference with good patient care.

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Case Management Fast-Growing Role, Despite Pandemic Difficulties

Nurse.com

It was up to case managers to organize and orchestrate these movements — all while keeping patients and their families (not to mention insurance companies) apprised at every turn. Many case managers had never done this before — they were used to primarily moving patients to their homes,” Mullahy acknowledged.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Meet Nicole Reid, Poison Control Nurse

Minority Nurse

I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator. The clinical focus is their passion and they are dedicated to excellent patient care. Others have a more academic focus and enjoy publishing their research and presenting it at national conferences.

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Journey into the Life of a Rescue Flight Nurse

The Nurse Break

The idea of combining my experience and skills in new and exciting environments outside of the traditional nursing role presented a fantastic opportunity. I was fortunate to get the job as a casual fixed wing flight nurse, where the position entailed retrieving critically ill patients, both domestically and internationally.

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