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A Day in the Life of a NICU Nurse

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A must-read article for all budding ICU, NICU and paediatric nurses. Yes, as with any critical care specialty, we witness loss and grief, but we also see positivity and this makes our role so very rewarding. The SensorMedics is a mechanical ventilator known as a High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilator (HFOV).

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Journey into the Life of a Rescue Flight Nurse

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Check out our other flight nursing articles below! Flight Nursing Articles. The majority are adult patients with all types of conditions, commonly cardiac, complex medical and surgical, or trauma – they are often intubated and ventilated and on inotropes. How do you handle grief, trauma and death? Write for us.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

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Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. And I think of the Doug White article?

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

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Alex: Could you walk us through this one, stages of grief in era of immunotherapy? And it seemed like we had created a new stage of grief. And then there’s this explosion of nivolumab and then grief and acceptance. And the editors know how to get people drawn into that article. Alex: Let me share one here.

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Amazing Career As An Air Ambulance Nurse

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Check out our other flight nursing articles below! Flight Nursing Articles. So, it’s important the patient is well secured on our stretcher and to ensure our monitor, ventilator and infusion pumps are well secured on our bridge. How do you manage grief, trauma and death? Make sure to check out their website !

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

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Not one elderly person died on a ventilator. And I would tell him not to underestimate the grief that he is going to experience. Darrell: But for me personally, I actually got involved with David Kessler’s organization in Southern California, and went through a grief educators program for him. Pretty tough.