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Dehydration Plays Key Role in Nursing Home Death

Nurse.com

With the elderly, dehydration can be caused by many factors, but studies indicate that inadequate staffing and lack of supervision are principal causes of dehydration in nursing homes. She was returned to the nursing home the following morning. Someone called 911, but the EMTs couldn’t resuscitate her.

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. Nearly 10% of the 1.5

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Betty’s Death

The Nurse Break

Republished article of The Nurse Path. Find more of The Nurse Path here. Go Here Some time ago we had a 98 yo lady (whom I will call Betty), transferred to our emergency department from a local nursing home. Betty was having palliative care at the nursing home and was well aware that she was soon going to die.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In 1983, a 25 year old Nancy Cruzan was thrown from her car while driving home in Missouri, landing in a water filled ditch. She was resuscitated by EMS, but did not regain higher brain function, and was eventually diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

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