Caregiver Support Services
APRIL 10, 2024
They may also take vital signs and ensure the patient’s environment is safe and comfortable. Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) LVNs perform more complex tasks than CNAs, including administering medications, monitoring vital signs, and providing wound care under the supervision of registered nurses or physicians.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? There’s a vital signs tracing, the patient’s wearing a mask. So I just can’t keep going.
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GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
We didn’t have pain as a fifth vital sign then. The post Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Nobody was taking them. All of that really had to be revamped in terms of opioid safety.
GeriPal
JULY 7, 2022
And I wonder as you think about that and as you think about pain being a vital sign, every shift in the hospital people are asking if they’re having pain, we’re going in there asking people, “Are you hurting? And attention to pain builds pain. Do you have pain anywhere?”
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