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COVID-19 Class of 2020: My Hospital Residency’s Twists and Turns

Nurse.com

During my hospital residency in 2020, I worked in several ICUs, all of which had been converted to COVID-19 wards. Each new rotation in a COVID-19 ICU made us feel like we were patients who had just undergone CPR, been brought back to life, and were back on a ventilator for the next round. Graduation and Beyond.

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COVID-19 Class of 2020: My Hospital Residency’s Twists and Turns

Nurse.com

During my hospital residency in 2020, I worked in several ICUs, all of which had been converted to COVID-19 wards. Each new rotation in a COVID-19 ICU made us feel like we were patients who had just undergone CPR, been brought back to life, and were back on a ventilator for the next round. Graduation and Beyond.

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How Family Tragedy Led To Perispinal Etanercept Treatment Research

The Nurse Break

Joel was diagnosed with a catastrophic brain injury and after 2 weeks in ICU on a ventilator, he was moved in a comatose state to the same Children’s ward where I had worked as an RN, 10 years previously. This world-first clinical trial was completed and published in January 2020.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

GeriPal

I think that’s something we’ve seen even with the most recent issues that came out, not new issues, but came to the surface with the racial reckoning that we saw in 2020 related to murders and deaths and killings and that sort of stuff that helps to reshape how we refer to different groups of individuals in our community.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. And moreover, about 40% of those patients with POLST had last signed it or filled it out two years prior to that presentation.

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

I was a Civil Engineer for six years but made the move to nursing for the many pathways and opportunities it presents, as well as a better work/life balance. All men should consider Nursing as a career because of the flexibility, and opportunities that the career presents. Hi, I’m Romnick. Rob | CEO and Educator.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

GeriPal

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. . Darrell: Thank you.