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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. Guest Laurie Dornbrand has no relationships to disclose.

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

Nurses enter the healthcare industry with an internal yearning to care for others. Having an in-depth knowledge about patient care and being unable to ensure that patients receive quality care creates a moral conflict. How nurses experience moral injury. COVID-19: Managing Staff Mental Health During a Pandemic (.50

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Understanding Nurses Experiencing Moral Injury

Nurse.com

Nurses enter the healthcare industry with an internal yearning to care for others. Having an in-depth knowledge about patient care and being unable to ensure that patients receive quality care creates a moral conflict. How nurses experience moral injury. COVID-19: Managing Staff Mental Health During a Pandemic (.50

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Resume FAQs for Nursing Students and New Nurses

Nurse.com

You can mention significant experiences you had or skills you developed, such as working with ventilators or assisting with procedures like placing an IV, in a bulleted list below your clinical experience. Peer reviewing can be an effective practice in catching potential errors in formatting or missing information. spring 2022).

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Case Management Fast-Growing Role, Despite Pandemic Difficulties

Nurse.com

It was up to case managers to organize and orchestrate these movements — all while keeping patients and their families (not to mention insurance companies) apprised at every turn. Many case managers had never done this before — they were used to primarily moving patients to their homes,” Mullahy acknowledged.

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HSPN ELEVATE: Hospice Clinical Innovation Trends

Hospice News

That’s really a significant investment that we’ve made and innovation in how we care for staff with personal days, recognition, we have a fleet car program, all the things that we can do to make this the most desirable place to work in our communities. One of our team members helped us develop our patient care coordination app.

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Meet Nicole Reid, Poison Control Nurse

Minority Nurse

At that time, I formed a relationship with the center director and about 18 months later, she helped me form a plan to become a Registered Nurse and work my way into my position at NCPC as a Specialist in Poison Information (SPI). I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator.

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