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Longleaf Medical Director: Hospice Care Needs a ‘Revolution’ 

Hospice News

The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. Our definitions of what value needs to be more nuanced. The hospitals should be really for triaging, and and then hopefully successfully resuscitating and rehabilitating people. It needs to capture acuity.

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

Seasons Hospice

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. 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

Most transfers from the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Brisbane base are inter-facility transfers to secondary or tertiary hospitals for definitive patient care. Some patients require immediate transfer for definitive care where others without interventions will deteriorate during the flight.

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How To Become a Registered Nurse

Nurse.com

These broad definitions, however, do not capture the vast array of a nurse’s responsibilities and the talents they require. Performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. In essence, RNs: Provide and coordinate patient care as part of a team of healthcare providers and clinicians. Suctioning airways.

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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? 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.

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The ultimate nursing guide to sepsis

The Nurse Break

Circulation: Fluid resuscitation is a key component in the management of sepsis. SIRS, qSOFA and new sepsis definition. Breathing: Optimise oxygen availability: supplemental high flow O2 via NRB Provide ventilatory support as indicated Consider a respiratory source of infection: Auscultate lung fields obtain sputum samples.

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Nursing Officer in the Royal Australian Navy as a Reservist

The Nurse Break

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!!

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