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
They were not touching the patient, and they were more likely to be looking at the nurse or the vital signs tracing than the patient or the family member. There’s a vital signs tracing, the patient’s wearing a mask. Of course, the doctors know they’re in simulation, they signed up for it.
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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. Also, I had really encouraged people to take opioids back in the early 2000s, because that’s what we were doing then.
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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