Home Care Pulse
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Do your social workers know how to access the lending closet for specialized equipment? Her grandso n was able to receive support from the social worker and the child life specialist.
GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
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. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.
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Traditions Health
MAY 1, 2023
In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube. What is ALS?
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
So whether or not somebody wants to be on CPR or ventilator, that sort of thing. Eric: If our listeners want to find out more about Alter, should they go to the article you sent us or is there some website for this? ” Or for a social worker, “Where are we going to discharge them to?” Eric: Great.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
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?
The Nurse Break
DECEMBER 23, 2022
Republished article of The Nurse Path. Check out our other articles and guest bloggers here. Want to write an article? 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. Find more of The Nurse Path here.
GeriPal
APRIL 28, 2022
But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. One of the things I’ve been thinking as I listen to this and read articles in the journals and editorials is I wonder what this conversation sounds like to the layperson. Nathan: Thank you.
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