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Top Nursing Certifications: More Than CPR

Daily Nurse

PALS courses cover various topics such as advanced pediatric assessments, medication administration for pediatric emergencies, life support for children, and post-resuscitation care. This certification equips you with the necessary information to care for older patients’ mental, physical, and psychosocial health.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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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. 20 years later, Wendy Anderson did exactly the same study and found that residents at UCSF used exactly the same language.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. Anyway, we resuscitated him as best we could, stayed in the ICU, and then ended up in a nursing home. And it’s not the same, but it does provide information. We’ve resuscitated people.

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Advocating for Critical Care Transport Nurses

Minority Nurse

Working on a flight or ground vehicle adds complexity to this fast-paced career, and the nursing industry is helping these nurses stay informed and educated throughout their careers. Critical Care Transport Nurses Day on February 18 brings attention to the vital work done by nurses in this specialty.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

But we had her code, each doctor’s interaction with the Black patient and the white patient, and she coded it with video using detailed information about how many times they touched the patient, how close they got to the patient’s bed, where their body was positioned, and whether they had open or closed body posture.