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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics.

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As Your Nursing Resume Gathers Dust

Daily Nurse

If you haven’t checked your resume for more than a year — or you don’t even know where you have a copy, digital or otherwise — then some resume resuscitation is needed ASAP. But remember: before you try mouth-to-mouth on that decrepit old resume, remove the cobwebs first.

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May Issue: Addressing Nurse Burnout, New Chest Pain Assessment Guidelines, More

AJN Off the Charts

Some articles may be free only to subscribers. This review presents strong evidence on the benefits of multimodal analgesia in reducing opioid use for pain management in the acute care setting. An In the News article on the travel nurse industry. Here’s what’s new.

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Firestorm

The Nurse Break

Republished article of The Nurse Path. Check out our other articles and guest bloggers here. Want to write an article? Peeking out of the small window in the resuscitation room, it seemed the world had been dipped in a bucket of hell. They were rushed into the resuscitation room where the trauma team pounced on them.

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The intense world of a Trauma Nurse (Part One)

The Nurse Break

The Trauma CNC acts as the scribe and nurse team leader in the resuscitation room at our institution. As a CNC 3, I have commitments at national, state and district levels, which includes writing policy, attending accountability meetings, presenting at conferences and being the Trauma nurse representative on state and national committees.

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5 NICU conditions and pieces of special equipment you must know

The Nurse Break

Written by Joshua Roberts originally in the FULL ARTICLE about NICU nursing. On occasions, babies can be born in poor condition and require extensive resuscitation for a number of reasons, such as placental abruption, umbilical cord issues, or a significant bleed. They may present with abnormal movements and seizure-like activity.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

We’ve invited Jacqueline Kruser and Bob Arnold on this week’s podcast to talk about their recently published JAMA Viewpoint article titled “ Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness. ” You recently published an article in the New Yorker titled, I can’t even read my own, what was the title again? Of course not.