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Can I Include End of Life Care Wishes in My Will?

Seasons Hospice

This document can specify your end-of-life wishes in the event that you become unable to make decisions for yourself. There are four main types of advanced directives: living wills, durable powers of attorney, do-not-resuscitate orders, and five wishes. Do you want to be resuscitated if your heart stops beating?

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Journey into the Life of a Rescue Flight Nurse

The Nurse Break

Training activities include, aircraft emergency procedures, passenger briefing, and helicopter underwater escape training (HUET) – in the highly unlikely event of a helicopter crashing into water. Some patients require immediate transfer for definitive care where others without interventions will deteriorate during the flight.

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

GeriPal

James Tulsky did a study in the late 80s looking at how residents at UCSF talked about code status, where the paradigmatic way was, if your heart stops, do you want us to resuscitate it? But I think what I didn’t know was that when somebody makes a decision to get to a certain event that the work isn’t done then.

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Nursing Officer in the Royal Australian Navy as a Reservist

The Nurse Break

For this I was required to complete an internationally recognised course that allows me to provide Command and Government advice on issues that may affect a community in the event of a disaster. Flying into Hawaii and joining a USNS warship – Millinocket, life for the next six weeks was definitely going to be life changing.

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