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Resume FAQs for Nursing Students and New Nurses

Nurse.com

You can mention significant experiences you had or skills you developed, such as working with ventilators or assisting with procedures like placing an IV, in a bulleted list below your clinical experience. Non-nursing work experience highlights the versatility of your skill set, so you should definitely include this on your resume.

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Journey into the Life of a Rescue Flight Nurse

The Nurse Break

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. Some patients require immediate transfer for definitive care where others without interventions will deteriorate during the flight.

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

GeriPal

It’s just an interference with good patient care. I can on one hand count the patients I’ve cared for who didn’t want mechanical ventilation. Kelly: Yeah, no, definitely. Eric: Statutory language in a durable power attorney form. Alex: And that’s just annoying. Eric: Just too much.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

I feel like we talked about this before, so I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I maybe will sound like a broken record to get back to what is the definition of advance care planning? I think I’m heartened by the fact that over the last decade or so, the definition of advance care planning has evolved.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

How did you get interested in palliative care research and the stuff that you’re doing right now? I was always critical care bound since medical school. But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. I definitely don’t want to do that today. Kate: Yeah.

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

The Nurse Break

Titration of ventilation settings, CRRT troubleshooting, vasopressor management, and supporting loved ones, all the while trying to manage documentation and patients who are critically unwell or aggressive as a result of ICU delirium. From my experience, men in nursing has a positive impact on patient care and work culture.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

In our particular practice, we take care of a very large population of patients with ALS who of course have a lot of physical disability. And because there are not many ALS centers in California, lots of those patients are pretty spread out. It’s been a little while since I did direct patient care.