Seasons Hospice
OCTOBER 26, 2022
There are four main types of advanced directives: living wills, durable powers of attorney, do-not-resuscitate orders, and five wishes. Do-not-resuscitate orders instruct medical staff not to revive the individual if their heart stops or they stop breathing. What Items Should Be Present In Your Living Will? If so, for how long?
The Nurse Break
APRIL 4, 2022
The idea of combining my experience and skills in new and exciting environments outside of the traditional nursing role presented a fantastic opportunity. Most transfers from the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Brisbane base are inter-facility transfers to secondary or tertiary hospitals for definitive patient care.
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The Nurse Break
DECEMBER 15, 2022
For example, a systematic review conducted by the George Institute for Global Health (2021) found that the SIRS criteria and qSOFA + lactate (LqSOFA) scores had high specificity for screening patients presenting to the Emergency Department. Skin often presents in a manner consistent with the patient’s vasoplegic state.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 5, 2023
I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. Sunita: Oh, I was going to, just to clarify what I had said before, it’s definitely not that we based things solely on biology, for sure.
The Nurse Break
JULY 31, 2022
Flying into Hawaii and joining a USNS warship – Millinocket, life for the next six weeks was definitely going to be life changing. With a combination of both fear and sheer exhilaration I embraced the wildness of the ocean and gathered a greater appreciation of the sea – who does this sort of thing!!
The Nurse Break
MAY 31, 2022
There are lots of different definitions for trauma, physical and mental, minor to catastrophic, but my role as a Trauma CNC is well defined. The Trauma CNC acts as the scribe and nurse team leader in the resuscitation room at our institution. People think it is sexy and exciting and all about the resuscitation.
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