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Dr. Michaela Lewis: A Career in Pediatric Nursing

Minority Nurse

I completed my undergraduate nursing studies at Gardner-Webb University in 2008 and earned my Doctor of Nursing Practice degree at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2015. Every challenge, however, presents an opportunity for growth. Please tell Minority Nurse a bit about yourself.

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

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Doctors Isaac and Curtis presented this approach as a remedy for challenges in patient care being revealed by current research: The majority of patients in advanced disease states want to know their life expectancy, but only a minority of patients recall having such conversations with their doctors. 2008; 26: 5988-5993. J Clin Oncol.

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Global Partners in Care Program Fosters International Collaboration on Palliative Care

Hospice News

Under the NHPCO umbrella, the Center for Hospice Care became a partner in the program in 2008, Ahern said. “It In 2013, CHC won the Global Partnership Award presented for a model partnership that others should look at.” Title transfer In 2014, based on input from leaders of U.S.

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Celebrating Hospice and Palliative Medicine as the Fifth Largest Medical Subspecialty

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Additionally, we are still quite a young specialty, with the birth of HPM as an official specialty being announced in 2005 , and getting started in 2008. We should be including this in our presentations on Hospice and Palliative Medicine 101, or frankly anytime we are asked to speak to outside audiences.

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Clinical Education – whose job is it anyway?

The Nurse Break

However, CNEs have multiple staff, and sometimes multiple departments, which they oversee, and time spent on facilitation and administration of education mean they are not always able to be present on the floor when you need them to be. Professional standards. NMBA (2016). Enrolled nurse standards for practice. NMBA (2016).

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Clinical Education – but I don’t have time…

The Nurse Break

Literature supports that barriers to clinical education result from time pressures, competing work demands, the unpredictable nature of the clinical environment and under-resourcing (Spencer, 2003; Ramani & Leinster, 2008). I once presented on ‘strategies to implement an education program in your unit’ at a symposium. Spencer, J.

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The ultimate nursing guide to sepsis

The Nurse Break

For example, a systematic review conducted by the George Institute for Global Health (2021) found that the SIRS criteria and qSOFA + lactate (LqSOFA) scores had high specificity for screening patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Skin often presents in a manner consistent with the patient’s vasoplegic state.

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