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.
The Nurse Break
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Babies may often present very floppy and what we call “hypotonic” which is when their tone is too relaxed, and sometimes “hypertonic” where they appear stiff. They may present with abnormal movements and seizure-like activity. The SensorMedics is a mechanical ventilator known as a High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilator (HFOV).
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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.”.
The Nurse Break
JUNE 4, 2022
Babies may often present very floppy and what we call “hypotonic” which is when their tone is too relaxed, and sometimes “hypertonic” where they appear stiff. They may present with abnormal movements and seizure-like activity. The SensorMedics is a mechanical ventilator known as a High Frequency Oscillatory Ventilator (HFOV).
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.
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
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.
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