The Nurse Break

AUGUST 6, 2022

More from In Pursuit of Excellence here. Other similar articles on self care and wellbeing here. ‘Education is important but camping is importanter’ – Strategies in self care. Since I’ve recently broken out my favourite annual leave meme (hence the first part of the title) and taken my camper trailer into the wild west of NSW, I thought it might be apt to talk about self-care and why, regardless of how much you may love what you do, regular self-care is so important.

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Palliverse

AUGUST 6, 2022

Photo by Coen Staal on Unsplash. I started preparing for the first conversation years ago. Despite this I still felt nervous prior to the first conversation with a patient who had been approved for Assisted Dying. The End of Life Choice Act 2019 came into effect in Aotearoa New Zealand on 07 November 2021. The first time I met an approved patient was only at the start of this year.

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Nurse Nacole

AUGUST 6, 2022

Category: Fundamentals Procainamide widens the QRS complex, prolongs the QT interval and prolongs the PR interval on the ECG. NAPA, the major metabolite of procainamide, blocks outward potassium currents and thereby has class III electrophysiologic properties.

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