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An Introduction to Advance Directives

Traditions Health

An Overview of Advance Directives An advance directive includes the end-of-life information you want your family and healthcare providers to know about your healthcare decisions if you become unable to communicate those choices. This healthcare proxy should be someone you trust to make decisions for you, in the event you are unable to do so.

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

Burnout is a series of events often characterized by physical symptoms of emotional exhaustion and chronic stress, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. Additional equipment such as fans and ventilators made it difficult for nurses to be heard as they tried to offer kind words of comfort to patients.

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School Nurse Career Guide

Nurse.com

If you have a passion for children and enjoy working independently, this information can serve as a helpful school nurse career guide. It’s common for kids with cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, seizure disorders, and even those on ventilators to be in public and private schools. What is a school nurse?

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

And I have gone through my not-so-long career, but it’s coming up on nine years now, seeing the way that we have talked about CPR in such problematic ways, in ways that really do not enable true informed consent. And I wonder, because I read that need part a lot in this article. And I think a lot of that leads to extreme moral distress.

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

Burnout is a series of events often characterized by physical symptoms of emotional exhaustion and chronic stress, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment. Additional equipment such as fans and ventilators made it difficult for nurses to be heard as they tried to offer kind words of comfort to patients.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. Here is a list of important information that you might want to share with your child’s palliative care team so that they understand you, your child, and your family. Advance care planning.

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Palliative care for children: planning and communication

Elizz

By sharing information surrounding end-of-life care, it will help build a collective understanding and establish great communication. Here is a list of important information that you might want to share with your child’s palliative care team so that they understand you, your child, and your family. Advance care planning.