Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 25, 2024

She teaches Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) courses and TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) and is an Anne Arundel Community College faculty member. Her remarkable contributions and heartfelt connections with her patients have earned her the title of Nurse of the Week.

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Palliverse

JANUARY 13, 2023

In real life, resuscitation doesn’t work so well. In those few successful resuscitations, the person was left physically and mentally damaged. With your burden of disease, the chances of a successful resuscitation would be close to zero. It’s not like what you see on TV.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

MARCH 30, 2025

Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine. Quality indicators for a geriatric emergency care (GeriQ-ED)-an evidence-based delphi consensus approach to improve the care of geriatric patients in the emergency department. 2020;28(1):68-. Wad MS, Laursen T, Fruergaard S, Morgen SS, Dahl B.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Category: Fundamentals The goals of cardiopulmonary resuscitation are to restore energy to the heart so it can resume normal function and ensure adequate energy supply to the brain during resuscitation. Oxygen is vital to these goals.

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Traditions Health

APRIL 15, 2024

There are several legal and medical forms you can use to help capture your wishes — from advance directives and living wills to physician orders for life-sustaining treatment and do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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. That stress is entirely avoidable if they only look over their resume once a year.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 25, 2024

PALS courses cover various topics such as advanced pediatric assessments, medication administration for pediatric emergencies, life support for children, and post-resuscitation care. So, PALS can be a helpful certification for nurses. Holding this certification allows you to work effectively in pediatric intensive care units.

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Nurse Nacole

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Capnography provides a means of monitoring the patient's physiological response to ongoing resuscitative efforts with minimal interruption to compressions for the purpose of checking for pulses.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Extraglottic devices, such as laryngeal mask airways (LMAs) and the King Laryngeal Tube (LT), are also important for the initial resuscitation of apneic patients and for rescue ventilation when intubation fails.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Although 100% oxygen may have been used during initial resuscitation, providers should titrate inspired oxygen to the lowest level required to achieve an arterial oxygen saturation of ≥94%, to avoid potential oxygen toxicity.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 27, 2023

The lifesaving breath that resuscitates your career might necessitate quitting a deadening, numbing job or leaving a dysfunctional and toxic workplace. Asking yourself questions like those mentioned above can help to catalyze a process of inquiry that may lead you to the next iteration of your career.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Lactate clearance has been shown to be equivalent to central venous oxygen saturation as an endpoint of early septic shock resuscitation. Lactate clearance measurements are the preferred endpoint of resuscitation.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing If the lactate concentration has not decreased by 10-20% two hours after resuscitation has begun, steps should be taken to improve systemic perfusion. Resuscitation should continue until the lactate concentration drops below 2 mM/L.

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American In-Home Care

MARCH 15, 2024

It covers scenarios such as life support, resuscitation, and organ donation preferences. Living Will: A living will details the type of medical care you wish to receive or refuse if you cannot make decisions for yourself. Essentially, it provides guidance to healthcare providers and loved ones about your desired level of care.

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Diversity Nursing

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, Josie Dotson , says " My job allows me to attend births and resuscitate 22-to-42-week infants, perform high-risk procedures, develop and manage care plans for NICU patients, and educate and support staff/families along the way.

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Nurse Nacole

MAY 14, 2024

Category: Fundamentals Quality chest compression increases the efficacy of drugs administered during resuscitation, whereas inadequate circulation leads to minimal effects from peripherally delivered drugs.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Because drowning often is accompanied by hypothermia, the victim may benefit from prolonged resuscitation efforts, similar to resuscitation efforts for hypothermia. Category: Critical Care Nursing Drowning is a form of asphyxia usually resulting in bradyasystolic arrest.

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Nurse Nacole

MAY 17, 2024

Category: Fundamentals Central venous access remains a cornerstone of resuscitation. Hemodynamic monitoring, rapid infusion of fluid, placement of transvenous pacemakers, and administration of some medications all require central venous access.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing In addition to uses in resuscitation, capnography can also be used to monitor patients with active seizures and maintain appropriate ETCO2 levels in patients with elevated intracranial pressure.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Septic shock often causes three major effects that must be addressed during resuscitation: hypovolemia, cardiovascular depression and induction of systemic inflammation. Septic shock produces hypovolemia, reducing right ventricular filling.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Normal arterial oxygen saturation following resuscitation from ischemic brain injury is a primary goal. The injured brain may not be able to compensate for hypoxia by augmenting cerebral blood flow.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing During cardiac arrest, ETCO2 reflects the degree of pulmonary blood flow as alveolar ventilation and basal metabolism are constant, so that it can be used to gauge effectiveness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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Nurse Nacole

MAY 16, 2024

The absence of arterial blood pressure defines cardiac arrest and serves as a definitive endpoint for resuscitative efforts. Category: Fundamentals Arterial puncture is the most accurate blood sampling technique for true arterial blood gas and acid-base determination.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing In cardiac arrest, return of spontaneous circulation is the priority in cerebral resuscitation. The degree of brain injury depends on the duration of complete cerebral ischemia (the downtime) and duration of relative ischemia during CPR.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing A rising lactate concentration (or refractory hypotension, with worsening base deficit), despite ongoing resuscitation, calls for more intensive measures. Once shock has been discovered, the next step is to consider the cause of the shock.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing A downward trend of the serum lactate concentration or upward trend of the base deficit, with correspondingly improving vital signs and urine output, reliably gauge the adequacy of resuscitation and prognosis in shock from any cause.

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Diversity Nursing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

They have the capability to perform neonatal resuscitation at every delivery and to evaluate and provide routine postnatal care for healthy newborn infants. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), there are 4 Neonatal care levels. Level I: Well Newborn Nursery.

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Nurse Nacole

MARCH 12, 2024

Category: Fundamentals During the initial phase of resuscitation (airway, breathing, circulation, disability), consideration for the diagnosis of pneumothorax should be considered in patients who are tachycardic, hypotensive and dyspneic.

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Nurse Nacole

MARCH 30, 2024

These patients sometimes require appropriate integration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with defibrillation to establish the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). Category: Fundamentals Patients with VF or pulseless VT are unresponsive, pulseless and apneic.

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

No resuscitation. Not a life. Blood transfusion? What’s the point? So I can live longer to get worse? No, I wouldn’t want you to treat a chest infection. Yes, Let nature take its course. Yes, you do understand me. You listen to what I want, nice for a change.

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AJN Off the Charts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

To manage the shortage, we centralized blood culture storage to the nurses’ station and resuscitation bay. Normally we have multiple sets of blood cultures in our supply carts spread across our ED. I am proud of the team at Mount Sinai West ED and their ability to be so agile.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 9, 2025

Category: Critical Care Nursing Restoration of adequate cardiac function is the defining factor of return of spontaneous circulation, but restoration of good neurologic function is the defining factor of successful resuscitation.

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Nurse Nacole

AUGUST 4, 2024

Category: Critical Care Nursing Central venous access remains a cornerstone of resuscitation and critical care. Advanced hemodynamic monitoring, placement of transvenous pacemakers and administration of certain medications all require central venous access.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 23, 2025

Continued resuscitation efforts are aimed at optimizing DO2 to prevent multiorgan dysfunction and recurrent arrest. Category: Critical Care Nursing Inadequate oxygen delivery (DO2) causes cells to convert to anaerobic metabolism, resulting in lactate production.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 24, 2025

A single lactate level is almost universally elevated after resuscitation from cardiac arrest. Category: Critical Care Nursing Serum lactate levels provide an indirect measure of whether oxygen delivery (DO2) is adequate to prevent anaerobic metabolism.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 21, 2025

Category: Critical Care Nursing Resuscitation of a cardiac arrest victim does not end with return of spontaneous circulation. Management includes rapid diagnosis and treatment of the disorders that caused the arrest and complications of prolonged global ischemia.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 4, 2025

Category: Critical Care Nursing Central venous oxygen saturation, ScvO2, can be used to monitor resuscitative measures. The mixed venous blood oxygen saturation in the pulmonary artery (SvO2) represents the oxygen remaining in the blood after systemic extraction.

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