Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Category: Fundamentals The laryngeal mask airways are widely considered to be essential adjuncts for rescue ventilation and difficult intubation, can be inserted in less than 30 seconds, and provide effective ventilation in more than 98% of patients.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Achieving adequate ventilation with a bag-mask device requires an open upper airway and a good mask seal. Overly aggressive bag-mask ventilation causes stomach inflation and increases the risk for aspiration.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Extraglottic airway devices can be blindly placed above or posterior to the larynx to allow rapid ventilation and oxygenation. They are good rescue devices for patients who are difficult or impossible to ventilate and oxygenate with a face mask.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 31, 2024

Several factors contribute to suctioning-related hypoxia, including interruption of mechanical ventilation, aspiration of air and suctioning-related atelectasis. Category: Fundamentals Hypoxemia from suctioning may cause increased ICP, dysrhythmias or even death.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 30, 2024

Category: Fundamentals For mechanically ventilated patients, the head of the bed should be elevated to 30 degrees to improve respiratory mechanics. Aseptic technique should be used throughout all suctioning procedures to prevent the introduction of bacteria.

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Nurse Nacole

JANUARY 21, 2024

Category: Fundamentals The tracheostomy cuff provides a tight seal to allow positive pressure ventilation and prevent aspiration. Cuff pressure should ideally be maintained below 25 mm Hg. Overinflation can cause disastrous injury to the tracheal wall and mucosa.

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Nurse Nacole

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Cuffed tracheostomy tubes are used for patients on long-term mechanical ventilation. Cuffed tubes also prevent volume loss during positive pressure ventilation while preventing air leaks. Category: Fundamentals Tracheostomy tubes can be cuffed or uncuffed.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Nurses are invaluable members of the healthcare workforce, and when you’re proactively building a nursing career that you can fully embrace and be proud of, there are plenty of strategies and mindset hacks to consider. One of the greatest assets you carry as a nurse is the many skills you’ve worked hard to acquire.

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Nurse Nacole

MARCH 11, 2024

Category: Fundamentals Tension pneumothorax must be considered in any patient with sudden or severe respiratory or cardiac deterioration and in intubated patients who become difficult to ventilate. Signs include increased airway pressure and hypotension.

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Nurse Nacole

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Category: Fundamentals The goal of bag-mask ventilation is to achieve adequate gas exchange while keeping peak airway pressure low. Squeezing the bag forcefully creates high peak airway pressure and is more likely to inflate the stomach.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Category: Fundamentals The only contraindication to attempting bag-mask ventilation is when the application is impossible. It is often impossible to achieve an effective face mask seal on patients with deforming facial trauma and those with thick beards.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Adequate O2 delivery depends on the inspired partial pressure of O2, alveolar ventilation, pulmonary gas exchange, blood oxygen-carrying capacity and cardiac output. The easiest factor to manipulate is the partial pressure of inspired O2.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Establishment of a patent airway, oxygenation and bag-mask ventilation (BMV) remain the cornerstones of good emergency airway management. Category: Fundamentals Basic airway procedures are critically important and often lifesaving.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Extraglottic devices, such as laryngeal mask airways (LMAs) and the King Laryngeal Tube (LT), are also important for the initial resuscitation of apneic patients and for rescue ventilation when intubation fails.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Upper airway obstruction caused by the tongue can be relieved by positioning maneuvers of the head, neck and jaw; the use of nasopharyngeal or oropharyngeal airways; or the application of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV).

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Capnography is more sensitive than clinical assessment of ventilation in detecting apnea along with other respiratory complications. This leads to more awareness of respiratory complications associated with procedural sedation.

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Nurse Nacole

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

A PETCO2 reading higher than 70 mm Hg in patients without chronic ventilation problems indicates respiratory failure. Category: Fundamentals Acute bronchospasm results in a capnogram with a curved ascending phase and an upsloping alveolar plateau.

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Nurse Nacole

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Category: Fundamentals Capnography provides information about ventilation (how CO2 is eliminated by the pulmonary system), perfusion (how CO2 is transported through the vascular system) and metabolism (how CO2 is produced by cellular metabolism).

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 15, 2022

4 anaesthetic emergencies that new nurses need to be aware of? He is a Peri-anaesthesia Clinical Nurse Specialist, Educator and Facilitator and the Founder of the Aussie Nurse Educator. Written by Rory Tanner. Original full article here when we interviewed him about his career. Worth checking it out! Anaphylaxis.

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The Nurse Break

JUNE 7, 2022

Meet Cheelim Liew (BN, GradDipCriticalCare, MPH, GradDipCardiacUltrasound, CCRN | AMS, ECMO Advance Practice Nurse). We are fortunate enough to have teamed up with Eastern Health to bring you this interview about the fascinating and intense world of an ECMO nurse (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation). Introduction.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 22, 2022

What was frequently confused as burnout in previous years has recently been accurately identified as moral injury for nurses. As nurses navigate the dynamic policies and procedures of healthcare in an already high-stress environment, correctly recognizing their challenges and struggles is often difficult, yet extremely important.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JULY 17, 2022

The authors of this paper conclude: “Reducing contacts, always wearing well-fitted FFP2 respirators when indoors, using ventilation and other methods to reduce airborne virus concentrations, and avoiding situations with loud voices seem critical to limiting these latest waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.”. 79% require a surgical mask.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Whether you’re a nursing student or recently graduated, it’s always a good time to build or update your resume. The required elements on a nursing resume frequently change, so for nursing students and new nurses, knowing the most important components and executing them well can help them land their first or next nursing role.

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The Nurse Break

JUNE 4, 2022

We teamed up with Monash Health – Victoria’s largest public health service to interview one of their senior Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Nurses about all things NICU nursing! A must-read article for all budding ICU, NICU and paediatric nurses. What is a NICU nurse? Write for us.

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Diversity Nursing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you're interested in joining the Nursing field, or changing your Nursing Specialty, you'll want to learn more about which Specialty is the right fit for you. Neonatal Nursing may be the perfect career choice. Nurses working in the NICU have a wide variety of responsibilities. Certification in Maternal Newborn Nursing.

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Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) is bringing the lessons learned from its proven nurse leadership and innovation program and its Healthy Work Environment (HWE) initiative to help nurses at hospitals around the country improve the health of their workplaces. We aim to change that.”

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Nursing recently conducted a meta-analysis of studies involving more than 33,000 cancer patients to evaluate the relationship between advance care planning and utilization of aggressive versus comfort-focused care.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 22, 2022

What was frequently confused as burnout in previous years, has recently been accurately identified as moral injury for nurses. While we’ve long understood the physical toll a 12-hour shift can have on nurses, understanding emotional impacts and their effects on the nursing workforce has been less appreciated.

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Nurse.com

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Have you ever considered working as a school nurse and curious about school nurse qualifications and salary? If you have a passion for children and enjoy working independently, this information can serve as a helpful school nurse career guide. What is a school nurse?

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Nurse Nacole

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Category: Fundamentals Decongestants are sympathomimetic agents that stimulate alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors, causing vasoconstriction in the respiratory tract mucosa and thereby improving ventilation.

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Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 29, 2023

For example, patients who have difficulty weaning from mechanical ventilation should first undergo a detailed workup to search for any underlying medical causes before anxiety sensitivity is considered as a primary cause. The post Anxiety Sensitivity Affects Patients’ Care, Recovery first appeared on Daily Nurse.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Written by Joshua Roberts originally in the FULL ARTICLE about NICU nursing. Also called bronchopulmonary dysplasia, it can often be caused by needing prolonged oxygen therapy, pulmonary damage during mechanical ventilation, infections, or simply underdeveloped lungs due to prematurity. This ventilator is essentially a drum.

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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This can only be achieved if care teams, including hospice nurses, know the latest evidence-based strategies for dementia care. But hospice nurses also recognize the challenges these patients and their families face every day and are ready to help ease their distress and fear. Hospice nursing supports patients with dementia.

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Daily Nurse

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He continued his work for another decade, partly due to the skills of Goldie Brangman, CRNA , MEd, the nurse anesthesiologist who treated him in 1958. The post CRNA Helped Save Martin Luther King’s Life After 1958 Stabbing first appeared on Daily Nurse.

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Caregiver Support Services

JUNE 2, 2023

For example, ambulances often have stretchers, ventilators, and other life support machines. Private companies and organizations such as nursing homes, hospitals, home care agencies, and assisted living facilities typically provide this type of transportation. The type of equipment used depends on the kind of emergency.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 16, 2022

Meet Rory Tanner , a Peri-anaesthesia Clinical Nurse Specialist, Educator and Facilitator and the Founder of the Aussie Nurse Educator. Rory shares his passion and clinical expertise to bring you a complete guide to peri-anaesthesia and perioperative nursing! Nurse Educator content. Preoperative admission nurse.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

My residency class had to deal with circumstances nurses haven’t had to deal with since the 1917 Spanish Flu pandemic, or ever before. At the start of the pandemic in North Carolina, student nurses were removed from all hospitals during our final clinical rotations because of a “mysterious disease”. Graduation and Beyond.

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