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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

Additional equipment such as fans and ventilators made it difficult for nurses to be heard as they tried to offer kind words of comfort to patients. In 2013, the American Nurses Association launched its health risk appraisal; it was taken by more than 14,000 nurses and nursing students.

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

Additional equipment such as fans and ventilators made it difficult for nurses to be heard as they tried to offer kind words of comfort to patients. In 2013, the American Nurses Association launched its health risk appraisal; it was taken by more than 14,000 nurses and nursing students.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

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. Eric: While they’re ventilated in the ICU, would you do that too? Lauren: Shock.

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Firestorm

The Nurse Break

At one stage the backup generators failed, draining the room of the intensive care specialists as they sprinted up to ICU to help ventilate their patients by hand. Somehow, the four of us (mother, sister, father and I) made it here, to January 18th, 2013. This person was conscious and talking when they arrived.

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