Daily Nurse

JANUARY 25, 2024

While some may focus on personal questions to gauge emotional intelligence and situational responses, others might test your knowledge in Pathophysiology and pharmacology or present mock code scenarios. Such experience can be valuable, even if the unit isn’t designated as a trauma center.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. So on the clinical side, people are really focused on how long do they have to be on the ventilator and managing that. Eric 27:31 They are unrepresented, they’re in the ICU on a ventilator. Should we keep them on the ventilator? Their advanced directive.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

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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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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.

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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. How do I reconcile these two issues? Lauren: Shock. Lauren: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I’d be willing to take some time on a mechanical ventilation machine to live longer.” And so the idea that patients are walking around with these on their shoulder like, “Hey, I got the mechanical ventilation preference, just want to make sure.” ” Because I’m like, “Yeah, to what end?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. I recently asked one oncologist what he thinks about palliative care, and he said, “I sort of look at my role with the patient is to present the glass half full, meaning treatment.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. It’s certainly not common in my practice.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

I think one of the challenges, especially about liver, is it doesn’t have a dialysis, it doesn’t have an ecMo, it doesn’t have a ventilator. Sarah 24:24 See, I usually always present it as these are things we should think of. Sarah 24:19 Well, I don’t know. Amy 24:21 For me, I always.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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.”

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

As part of the college graduation process, my class made oral presentations to the Board of Nursing, explaining how the non-traditional student learning processes of those last few weeks had prepared us to become nurses — as if we really understood what that meant or what we would have to do to when we became nurses. Graduation and Beyond.

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The Nurse Break

JUNE 4, 2022

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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The Nurse Break

APRIL 20, 2022

Joel was diagnosed with a catastrophic brain injury and after 2 weeks in ICU on a ventilator, he was moved in a comatose state to the same Children’s ward where I had worked as an RN, 10 years previously. Our focus at present is for those affected by chronic stroke – but we recognise that PSE will go on to help so many others.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. That’s not unique to POLST as an order.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 4, 2022

The idea of combining my experience and skills in new and exciting environments outside of the traditional nursing role presented a fantastic opportunity. The majority are adult patients with all types of conditions, commonly cardiac, complex medical and surgical, or trauma – they are often intubated and ventilated and on inotropes.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 16, 2022

In this instance, the normal care would be to use a bag valve mask and ventilate or breathe for the patient, however in a CICO event, you are unable to ventilate and hence unable to oxygenate. CICO is an anaesthetic airway emergency where the induction of anaesthesia has commenced and the patient’s airway is requiring management.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

What Items Should Be Present In Your Living Will? In your living will, you should clearly state your preferences for medical treatment, including life-sustaining measures such as artificial ventilation and feeding tubes. It’s important to note that advanced directives are not just for people with terminal illnesses.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As was to be the case throughout the disaster, communication was a real problem, and the only way we had any idea of the magnitude of what was unfolding, was from the paramedics and public that presented. Many of the public who presented with ‘minor’ injuries had just lost everything. All were absorbed into the charcoal faced crowd.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So whether or not somebody wants to be on CPR or ventilator, that sort of thing. So the disconnect there potentially with healthcare providers is when we talk about end of life and end-of-life planning, we’re thinking about the before death stuff. I told her no one’s ever made it- Karen: It was great. It was great.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

As part of the college graduation process, my class made oral presentations to the Board of Nursing, explaining how the non-traditional student learning processes of those last few weeks had prepared us to become nurses — as if we really understood what that meant or what we would have to do to when we became nurses. Graduation and Beyond.

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Red M.D.

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The patient was admitted to the neuro-trauma ICU, but even 72 hours later, despite a GCS of 3T, continued to over breathe the ventilator. Being present at a DCD is unlike witnessing any other death. The CT scan displayed evidence of anoxia with impending herniation.

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The Nurse Break

MARCH 27, 2022

What are the main types of presentations you see and what is your role in their care? Something like 20% of ED presentations involve alcohol. One time we had to bag a pt for 3 hours as we raced to shore as our ventilator broke down, which was hard going between 3 of us! Can you reflect on this and tell us the impact?

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Boca Home Care Services

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In fact, if one of these individuals is tested for the virus, he or she would present a negative test for the coronavirus; however, they could be severely debilitated nevertheless. In addition, the individuals afflicted with long covid are sometimes described as “long haulers.” Problems with Fatigue and Mood Swing.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator. Others have a more academic focus and enjoy publishing their research and presenting it at national conferences. My IPAH made me especially vulnerable and after managing to avoid COVID for two and a half years, it was finally my turn.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life. Even if we found a positive effect, I think we’d have to be very tentative about how we presented the implications. Wait, how is that actually defined? Like if somebody just drops. Because they are what they are.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Right, my answer that brings us a little bit closer to the present than my childhood. So the kind of technological bind we’re talking about that first became recognized in the sixties or so with ventilators, the kinds of technologies that we have to sustain different kinds of bodily function. They don’t need a heart.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Not one elderly person died on a ventilator. But so many palliative care providers … and I had been in a presentation with Ira Byock about this, who agreed that palliative care folk, it’s like, “Everybody’s good. Pretty tough. Pretty … Just all things, right? Just really powerful. We’re all good.”

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