Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

Those were a group of outcomes that we looked at that included mechanical ventilation, hospital admissions within the last 30 days of life, intensive care unit admissions, receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and chemotherapy within the last two weeks of life. The hospice indicator is stratified.

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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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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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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

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

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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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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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

One common myth about hospice is that patients must forgo the option to be resuscitated when dying. While most patients in hospice make an advance directive stating a preference to not be resuscitated or intubated, this is not a requirement. DNR stands for “do not resuscitate.” If there is any doubt, they will resuscitate.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This weeks’ blog is from Rohit Sagoo, Founder and Director, British Sikh Nurses , Community project with the Resuscitation Council UK. Faith-based nursing is a phenomenon in the United States, yet it needs to be recognised in the United Kingdom 1.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. I conceive of a very different model. I am hoping for a revolution in hospice medicine.

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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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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The researchers recommend future proactive studies focusing on the effects of fluid resuscitation and other care processes on the need for mechanical ventilation in this patient population. Risks decreased with time for the SOFA score and congestive heart failure and varied for four comorbidities and three culture results.

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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 2, 2022

Category: Fundamentals In patients with pulseless ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation, high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should be immediately initiated until a defibrillator or automated external defibrillator (AED) arrives.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. I remember there was an Archives article from, or Annals, I forget, it was probably called Archives back then, Resuscitating Advanced Directives.

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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 1, 2022

Years earlier, my husband and I had taken a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first aid class for new parents taught by paramedics and nurses at our local community center. He and his brothers had just finished eating breakfast before rushing off to play a game in the next room. Only a faint wheeze emerged when my son tried to breathe.

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

What can we do to resuscitate the hospice movement? We need to be reminded that we work in healthcare to help people. Our jobs exist because of patients. We need to remember it is not the other way around. Fresh ideas, reaching out to other groups and asking the consumers what they want.

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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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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On occasions, babies can be born in poor condition and require extensive resuscitation for a number of reasons, such as placental abruption, umbilical cord issues, or a significant bleed. Other equipment, including a ventilator, resuscitator, monitor, and other emergency equipment/medications are carried on the cot.

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Palliverse

MARCH 29, 2023

The next sentence he wrote said, “my sister didn’t know that I did not want to be resuscitated if I became unwell again.” “Do He was quite conscious of this and had already tucked three extra tissues under his chin to catch the drool. Do you mean you wish they hadn’t treated you the last time you were in hospital?”

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The Nurse Break

MAY 9, 2023

Betty had completed an advance care directive (ACD) stating her wishes not to be resuscitated and that she did not wish to die in a hospital, but in her current environment. Betty was having palliative care at the nursing home and was well aware that she was soon going to die.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 8, 2024

They need experience administering vasopressors and other high-risk medications, assisting with intubation or other resuscitation skills, and managing a critical patient independently (sometimes for hours) while waiting for an ICU bed to become available.”

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

There are four main types of advanced directives: living wills, durable powers of attorney, do-not-resuscitate orders, and five wishes. Do-not-resuscitate orders instruct medical staff not to revive the individual if their heart stops or they stop breathing. Do you want to be resuscitated if your heart stops beating?

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Palliverse

MARCH 27, 2023

The next sentence he wrote said, “my sister didn’t know that I did not want to be resuscitated if I became unwell again.” “Do He was quite conscious of this and had already tucked three extra tissues under his chin to catch the drool. Do you mean you wish they hadn’t treated you the last time you were in hospital?”

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Traditions Health

APRIL 16, 2023

If you want to be resuscitated if your heartbeat stops. As the disease progresses, you may begin thinking more about Do-Not-Resuscitate orders and mechanical ventilation. Some of the things that you can include instructions on are: If you want healthcare providers to use a breathing machine. If you want your organs to be donated.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR): In cardiac arrest or circulatory failure cases, nurses may need to perform CPR to maintain circulation and oxygen delivery. Address any abnormalities promptly.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

My guess is that few had had those important conversations or had been offered a wider range of choices than just to be hospitalized or be resuscitated/full code. Had anyone even discussed any of that with them?

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Palliverse

JUNE 5, 2023

She died suddenly and the family asked the nurses to perform CPR – cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Photo by Nik on Unsplash We thought she still had weeks left to live. We didn’t know it would only be hours. The nurses calmly and gently refused. They knew it wouldn’t work, she had been too unwell.

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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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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The patient’s spouse told us clearly that they had discussed their wishes for no resuscitation. We gathered the family and discussed our patient’s deterioration. We thought our patient was dying and we promised to keep them comfortable. We agreed that CPR would be inappropriate as well as other life-prolonging treatments.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 25, 2022

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. Teaching Elementary School Students to Be Emergency Responders.

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Seasons Hospice

APRIL 24, 2023

DNR In The World Off Hospice DNR stands for Do Not Resuscitate. A DNR order is a medical directive that specifies that cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should not be performed if a person’s heart stops or they stop breathing. That term is hard for anyone to hear when it comes to someone they love. What is a DNR order?

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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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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

Level of resuscitation status in the event of a sudden deterioration (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, intubation); as well as treatments that should be administered to your child (analgesia, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, transfusions).

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

Level of resuscitation status in the event of a sudden deterioration (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, intubation); as well as treatments that should be administered to your child (analgesia, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, transfusions).

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

Level of resuscitation status in the event of a sudden deterioration (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, intubation); as well as treatments that should be administered to your child (analgesia, antibiotics, anticonvulsants, transfusions).

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