Hospice News
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. I recently asked one oncologist what he thinks about palliative care, and he said, “I sort of look at my role with the patient is to present the glass half full, meaning treatment.
Nurse.com
AUGUST 5, 2022
As part of the college graduation process, my class made oral presentations to the Board of Nursing, explaining how the non-traditional student learning processes of those last few weeks had prepared us to become nurses — as if we really understood what that meant or what we would have to do to when we became nurses. Graduation and Beyond.
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GeriPal
APRIL 4, 2024
And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. It’s certainly not common in my practice.
Palliverse
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
As many doors and windows have been left open to allow greater ventilation to allow viruses and other infective materials to be circulated out of the building but the sound of the wind is not the subject of this post. It can change your facial expression in an instant. It can lead to a sudden and rapid expulsion of air from your body.
Nurse.com
AUGUST 5, 2022
As part of the college graduation process, my class made oral presentations to the Board of Nursing, explaining how the non-traditional student learning processes of those last few weeks had prepared us to become nurses — as if we really understood what that meant or what we would have to do to when we became nurses. Graduation and Beyond.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 5, 2023
I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.”
Traditions Health
MAY 1, 2023
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