Hospice News
JUNE 17, 2022
Some call these cases “wrongful life lawsuits” when they occur in the courts, though “wrongful resuscitation” may be the more accurate term. . Nevertheless, only about 45% of the chronically ill have documented their wishes, according to 2017 research in Health Affairs.
The Nurse Break
DECEMBER 15, 2022
2017; Li et al., Former international guidelines advised that a patient could be clinically identified as septic if they met two or more of the SIRS criteria (below) with a suspected or confirmed source of infection, and many organisations have continued this practice (Marik & Taeb, 2017). Recognising sepsis in clinical practice.
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AJN Off the Charts
APRIL 7, 2023
The study looked at claims data from January 2013 to December 2017 among 146,329 older patients with metastatic breast, colorectal, lung, pancreas, or prostate cancer. 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.
The Nurse Break
APRIL 4, 2022
When a position became available at RACQ LifeFlight Rescue in 2017, it was appealing because of its diverse and dynamic characteristics to a nursing role. The best strategy is to prepare for the worst, hoping that it won’t happen, and have all the resuscitation equipment prepared prior to transporting the patient.
The Nurse Break
JULY 31, 2022
Vietnam 2017- PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP. One of the most exciting moments on this six week trip was crossing the equator and meeting King Neptune! Always a fun activity for any ship’s company at sea, and a memory that will be forever ingrained in my life as a Naval Officer.
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