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This time last year we were entering what became the saddest and most challenging eight weeks or so in my work career for sure, and maybe my life. We lost SO many people to COVID. And in so many ways it seemed unnecessary, whether you believe vaccine...
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I have been a CNA for 3 years, lvn 6 year, RN for 1 year in California in a subacute setting. I have always known that if a patient is full code and died unsuspectedly, you always call police after 911 paramedics can’t resuscitate the patient and tim...
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Hello,
I have been a nurse for 4 years but began travel nursing only about a year ago. I went to a hospital that I was way in over my head at but didn't realize until something horrible happened. It was a community hospital that had very few r...
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At my hospital most patient deaths are "RN pronounce," which means you don't need a doc to call/confirm it. I appreciate that. But is there a specific methodology to confirming death? I had a comfort care patient die last week and it was my first RN ...
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Hello all. I'm wondering how often in your career you experience patients passing away on the table (monthly..yearly..)? What happens after? Who closes and cleans them? Who takes them to the morgue? Docs, nurses, techs, nursing assistants, etc.
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Has anyone experienced trauma with patient death? How did you recover? Did you return to your job? Any tips on dealing with patient death? Hoping anyone might be able to relate and can share their journey or have some advice. Short story I had been a...
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Am sadly just putting this out there - There have been more deaths due to covid 19 here in New Jersey than the combined death toll of the sunken Titanic and all the NJ victims of Sept 11th. Thought about this as the anniversary of the sinking of Tita...
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Just some background, I'm a new nurse, been on my own for about 1.5 months on a Med/Surg Tele Unit. I've been floated to the Covid unit several times, and this particular night one pt I had was there more for renal failure than covid but was positive...
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In my area it seems that the worst of the COVID pandemic has passed, we are now seeing maybe 1-2 COVID patients at a time in the unit, and we've even had a couple stretches of a few days with no COVID positive patients. That's been a nice change from...
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Posting updated statistics re Covid-19 spread in the US. Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 website lists more than 7.3 million positive cases of coronavirus have been confirmed worldwide, including over 416,000 deaths. U.S. surpassed 2 million perso...
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Hi, this is my first time posting on this site, but I have lurked around for a while and thought now might be the time to get some advice.
So the story is, several months ago I had a patient brought to the ICU intubated after several cardiac arr...
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I think the hardest part of this job is having patients die. Especially after taking care of them for months and months, sometimes I have been around the child more than their own parents have. It's hard to keep my emotions out of it. Recently, my wo...
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I went to the funeral of a former coworker who died, and was covid positive. This person was in their 20s. I learned that the family had requested an autopsy that had been denied by the coroner. This was because the patient was covid positive. The fa...
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Read in its entirety: COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than the Vietnam War
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A Typical DNR Scenario
The 90-year-old man was whisked into the Emergency Department by the rescue squad. He was found on the floor of his kitchen by his daughter and son-in-law who rushed into the area almost at the same time as the gurney pushe...
