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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.’ . & Psychological harm occurs. & MacNeil, G. 2 (57-68).

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"To every thing there is a season. "

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Consider the traumas and medical emergencies that have a seasonal prominence in your locality, then prepare topical presentations in formats that work well with your group. As with a well-run ‘mega-code’, these are rehearsals for future events that may present suddenly. Readers must verify validity to their own practice.

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

An example would be the recent ACLS graduate who tells the airway manager, who is ventilating the patient well without a leak, that he/she is holding the mask “upside-down”. This deliberate choice is known to the expert, but not well-published in basic literature. —David Dunning ” (as cited in Wikipedia article, below).

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Olympic Fever

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The many athletes are in their prime, and often well-acquainted with strain, injury, acute care, and rehabilitation. Translators are available for this polyglottal population. So, I offer applause and best wishes to those who represent us in meeting the health challenges of such a large enterprise honoring sport and peace. "Citius,

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Erratum in Mouth-to-Airway [adjunct]

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

The reference that I had ordered arrived well after the posting. Emergency Airway, Ventilation, and Cardiac Resuscitation Anesth Prog. In the last blog entry, I expressed my belief that the Venti-Breather® was perhaps the commercial version of the Roswell Park Rescue Breathing Mask (sic) designed by James O. I was wrong.

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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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??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!