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The Pause- a recognition of a life

Don't Forget the Bubbles

Definitive emotional support is critical to our emotional and psychological well-being. The Pause Jonathon Bartels worked as an Emergency Nurse in America in 2009. After the death of a young person in the Emergency Department, he initiated ‘ The Pause.’ Journal of Trauma Nursing. Psychological harm occurs.

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Milestones of Modern Progress in Emergency Care

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

As Advanced Practice Nursing grew, at first in family practice, then into other specialties, emergency care became an area of interest. A natural one, and especially suited for increasing capability without regard to physician residency program output of graduates, and in less-well-served rural areas. EDNA->ENA. 10/20/2013.

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"The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial." [Hamlet]

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

All efforts to identify the decedent by hospital staff, law enforcement agencies or social service agencies should be well documented in the medical records. Accessed 07/30/2016. Accessed 07/30/2016. Accessed 07/30/2016. Accessed 07/25/2016. April 6, 2016. Accessed 07/25/2016. Accessed 07/25/2016.

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??I would have been thankful for, in days of yore …

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

If doing what was called "the one-man-band resurrection shuffle" [single person CPR in the back of a moving ambulance], this worked very well, as the bag would stay hanging there on the patient's face. How useful these would have been to let us know how well the patient was oxygenating and ventilating!

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Clinical Catchphrases - Improving Clinical Outcomes with Clever Communication

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Those anxious prognosis questions can be given assurance as my surgeon grandfather did with "you're doing as well as can be expected considering the circumstances." ." This also helps induce buy-in to the plan by the patient and family. "How am I doing, Doc? Readers must verify validity to their own practice.

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Why is there a firehose of information from which to drink?

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Gather around, for a story. … "A long time ago, before our planet went digital … Well, it wasn't quite copyist monks illuminating vellum, nor was it even Dickens's Bob Cratchit labouring with quill and ink." Better education and careers were sought for their baby-boomer children, as well.

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Mask Ventilation and Bagging Errors That Will Kill or Hurt Your Patient!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Greenland's two-curve theory); unloads the visceral weight that impedes the diaphragm, thus, increasing functional reserve capacity; and may well minimize silent aspiration of regurgitation. One hand may maintain this maneuver (so-so) but it's harder to initiate and may not maintain it as well under adverse conditions.