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What You Need to Know About Do Not Resuscitate Orders in Hospice Care

Three Oaks Hospice

What Is a Do Not Resuscitate Order? A do not resuscitate order (DNR) is a legal order signed by a physician that specifies you do not want to be resuscitated in an emergency, meaning no steps will be taken to restart your heart or restore breathing should you experience cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest. [.].

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

Category: Fundamentals The goals of cardiopulmonary resuscitation are to restore energy to the heart so it can resume normal function and ensure adequate energy supply to the brain during resuscitation. Oxygen is vital to these goals.

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

Category: Fundamentals Although 100% oxygen may have been used during initial resuscitation, providers should titrate inspired oxygen to the lowest level required to achieve an arterial oxygen saturation of ≥94%, to avoid potential oxygen toxicity.

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NJ ICU Nurse Joyce Park Saves Life of Car Accident Victim

Daily Nurse

Her chest compressions were successful, and she resuscitated him after about 30 seconds. Park says she has resuscitated patients multiple times during her seven years as a nurse but never in an everyday situation like the one she encountered this evening. The 35-year-old nurse’s training kicked in.

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

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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Health Care Orgs Face Liability If End-of-Life Wishes Not Upheld

Hospice News

Some call these cases “wrongful life lawsuits” when they occur in the courts, though “wrongful resuscitation” may be the more accurate term. . This can prevent or delay hospice care for individuals who chose to receive it. .

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Nursing Tip of the Day! - Fundamentals

Nurse Nacole

Category: Fundamentals Capnography provides a means of monitoring the patient's physiological response to ongoing resuscitative efforts with minimal interruption to compressions for the purpose of checking for pulses.