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🔵Decoding the Blue Code: A Critical Aspect of Hospital Protocol🔵 ⚠️The "Blue Code" denotes a critical medical emergency, often involving cardiac or respiratory arrest, necessitating immediate intervention within hospital settings. 🧬It signifies a coordinated response from hospital staff to provide immediate life-saving interventions. 🩺 Essential team members typically include physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and support staff trained in resuscitation techniques. 🏥Training and drills are conducted regularly to ensure staff readiness and adherence to protocol. 💙The Blue Code protocol exemplifies the healthcare institution's unwavering dedication to patient safety and optimal clinical outcomes. #BlueCode #EmergencyResponse #CriticalCare #HospitalProtocol #MedicalEmergency #PatientSafety #HospitalEmergency #Pharmacist

Don't miss this FREE educational webinar. Join us to explore Mass Casualty Incidents in the ED: Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic! 💻 Mass casualty incidents have become more frequent in recent years. A distressing example was the significant and unexpected increase in sudden cardiac arrests during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic presented persistent challenges for emergency medicine workers and brought important lessons for healthcare systems worldwide. Furthermore, it highlighted the vital importance of adaptability, preparedness, accessibility to medical resources, efficient team coordination, and collaboration among healthcare professionals. Learn more about the topics for discussion and speakers on our website. 👉https://lnkd.in/esPp3Zby Take learning into your own hands! REGISTER TODAY and secure your spot! 👉https://lnkd.in/esPp3Zby #EUSEM #EmergencyMedicine #youngdoctor #paramedics #nurses #doctors #medicalprofessionals #healtheducation #medicaleducation #medicalresearch #healthcare #medicaltraining #medicalcareers #youngdoctors #EUSEM2023 #EUSEM2024 #EBEEM #webinars

www.criticalsecond.com It is imperative that your support staff are in touch with the latest theory and techniques. This ensures smooth, timely and safe performance of daily activities. Our programs follow the NDIS Practice Standards (Nov 22, v3) where the principles relating to the HIGH INTENSITY DESCRIPTORS are discussed, demonstrated and practiced. Our team up-skills yours. HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING MODULES ·       Ventilation ·       Tracheostomy ·       Enteral Feeding ·       Bowel Care ·       Complex Wound Care ·       Urinary Catheters ·       Sub-Cut Injections

Medical record entry: patient stated chest pain is a 10/10 and, "I feel like I'm dying." Those are scare quotes. Scare quotes are quotation marks used around a word or phrase when they are not required, thereby eliciting doubts or disbelief towards the statement in quotations. There's no need to document using scare quotes. Keep it clean, neutral, and fact-based. #nurse #expert #ernurse #emergencynurse #emergencydepartment #documentation #hospital #acutecare #scarequotes #medicalrecord #ehr #emr

Nurses have an essential role in delivering high quality patient care. One important topic in the context of patient safety is nursing staffing and nurse to patient ratio. With the global shortage of nurses, RN staffing may be a challenge for many healthcare institutions but, in Lebanon, this issue is becoming progressively more challenging as we face a scarcity of skilled nurses. A recent study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Quality & Safety underscores the critical link between RN staffing and patient care outcomes. The study found that an extra 12-hour shift by an RN was associated with a reduction in the odds of a patient death of 9.6% #nurse #registerednurses #BritishMedicalJournal #patientsafety #qualitycare #staffing #nursingshortage #Lebanon. Here is a link to the study : https://lnkd.in/dH7Bfgya

The top 5 reasons to do an objective swallowing exam such as FEES: ✅It is the ONLY way to assess the function of the swallow. ✅Aspiration pneumonia is one of the top 5 reasons for nursing home deaths and the other 4 reasons ARE PREDICTORS for aspiration pneumonia ✅It is less expensive than one month of thickened liquids (remember that SLPs over-diagnose 70% of the time) ✅An appropriate plan of care can be only developed when you know the function of the swallow ✅A clinical bedside evaluation can only form a hypothesis of what is occurring physiologically #administrator #IDDSI #nursepractitioner #nursinghomeadministrator #SNFadministrator #DON #SLP #MDS #MDScoordinator #directorofclinicaloperations #pneumonia #aspirationpneumonia #educateyourstaff #dysphagia #FEES #carepaths #medicalSLP #readmissioncosts #hospitalreadmissions

www.criticalsecond.com It is imperative that your support staff are in touch with the latest theory and techniques. This ensures smooth, timely and safe performance of daily activities. Our programs follow the NDIS Practice Standards (Nov 22, v3) where the principles relating to the HIGH INTENSITY DESCRIPTORS are discussed, demonstrated and practiced. Our team up-skills yours. HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING MODULES ·       Ventilation ·       Tracheostomy ·       Enteral Feeding ·       Bowel Care ·       Complex Wound Care ·       Urinary Catheters ·       Sub-Cut Injections

Should nurses follow doctor's orders? 🏥 💡 Ahh, this is actually a more complex answer than it seems! Yes, and also no. 👉🏽 Does the order make sense for THIS patient? Why so? (Docs are human too and things get ordered on the wrong patients sometimes!) 👉🏽 There may be an assessment of your patient that changes the need for the order (the laxatives you talked about the patient needing in rounds earlier? Well, they don't need them anymore...💩) 💡Nurses should never blindly follow orders. That is NOT the scope of our practice. 💡Know your patients and their disease processes. If you don't understand the need for the order, absolutely ALWAYS get clarification and justification of why it is indicated. 🥊 You are your patient's last line of defense! 🥊 ⚖️ I've reviewed legal cases where it did not look good for nurses when they didn't advocate for their patients. I highly recommend reviewing your state's nurse practice act and the ANA Code of Ethics. ⚖️ #medicalmalpractice #birthinjury #legalnurseconsultant

Are you impacted by Ohio DNR rules in your work or practice? Now is the time to make your voice heard! We are in the window of the 5 year review for rule updates! Please, share your needs and experiences through public comment!!! #oac #oaapn #dnr #ems #ohioems #medicine #nursing #righttolife #MOLST #POLST #ohionurses #palliativecare