GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Missouri set a very high bar, explicit written documentation that applies to this specific circumstance, which the Cruzan’s eventually cleared. But legislation can change, clinical practice can change, but I think what we’ll talk about today is how we’re now opening the door to conversations rather than legal rules and documents.

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Nurse.com

JULY 1, 2022

They’ve been integral in ensuring that extant procedures function as intended, and new protocols are adhered to and address the needs of large, diverse patient groups. By now, the hurdles that healthcare workers in virtually every setting faced at the onset of the pandemic are well-documented.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. So just to make that more concrete, Scott and I did a study a couple of years ago as well looking just at OHSU patients who presented to the emergency department with POLST. Why are they doing that?

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Document Nursing home Healthcare proxy Ventilator 268

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?

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Palliative care Geriatrics Palliate Document 145

The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

I was a Civil Engineer for six years but made the move to nursing for the many pathways and opportunities it presents, as well as a better work/life balance. I do miss building things (and the odd demolition to make way for something new), but helping people in the emergency care setting is much more rewarding! Hi, I’m Romnick.

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