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As Your Nursing Resume Gathers Dust

Daily Nurse

If you haven’t checked your resume for more than a year — or you don’t even know where you have a copy, digital or otherwise — then some resume resuscitation is needed ASAP. But remember: before you try mouth-to-mouth on that decrepit old resume, remove the cobwebs first.

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The Overlooked Crisis: Trauma Care for Older Adults in a Strained Nursing Workforce

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

A Call for Action The increasing number of older trauma patients presents a challenge that cannot be ignored. Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine. Addressing the nursing workforce crisis is imperative to safeguard the quality of trauma care for this vulnerable group. 2020;28(1):68-.

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Clinical Education – but I don’t have time…

The Nurse Break

I once presented on ‘strategies to implement an education program in your unit’ at a symposium. I can still remember witnessing my first resuscitation as a student nurse. First things first: ensure you are not making excuses.

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Standardized patient simulation versus didactic teaching alone for improving residents’ communication skills when discussing goals of care and resuscitation: A randomized controlled trial.

SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

In this episode Dr James Downar (University of Toronto, Canada) presents a study which aimed to determine whether standardized patient simulation offers benefit over didactic sessions alone for improving skill and comfort discussing goals of care of first-year internal medicine residents. Full paper from: [link]

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May Issue: Addressing Nurse Burnout, New Chest Pain Assessment Guidelines, More

AJN Off the Charts

This review presents strong evidence on the benefits of multimodal analgesia in reducing opioid use for pain management in the acute care setting. How school nurses from one Texas school district taught students cardiopulmonary resuscitation and how to recognize and use automatic external defibrillators and provide basic first aid.

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Nursing Officer in the Royal Australian Navy as a Reservist

The Nurse Break

Motorbike accidents and drownings appeared to be the most popular presentations to the EDs, as people often don’t wear shoes or helmets when driving their bikes – hence multiple feet/lower limb/head injuries. A truly profound learning experience as a Nursing Officer, and again, a memory to store for the duration….

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

And this is the range of recommended chest compressions to record your pulmonary resuscitation or CPR. Actually, our training as emergency physicians is mostly to resuscitate to acute care. Cause what we see is that some of the worst outcomes we have are when someone gets resuscitated because no one was there to explain.