UNDERSTAND DNR CODE STATUS & PALLIATIVE CARE IN THE ICU SETTING
What you'll receive from this course:
- The key aspects of full code status (CPR, ACLS, shock, intubation, vasopressors)
- Potential complications of full code procedures vs palliative care
- DNR/DNI (Do not resuscitate / Do not intubate)
- Tips for presenting advance directive options to patients and family members
- Terminal weaning & palliative care in the ICU
Who is this course for?
Students and medical professionals in a variety of medical fields. Physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, & technicians who seek to better understand DNR status and palliative care in the ICU
Course Content
- DNR: Definitions, Pillar Analogy Introduction
- DNR: The Process of a Terminal Extubation
- CPR: Does it Really Keep You "Stayin' Alive"?
ANESHA WHITTIER
KAMALA RAJOO, RN
Excellent. I work in ICU, this helps give me clear understanding. Thank you.
RAMZY ABDO
Amazing!
DIANE VOGELEI, NP
Excellent and thoughtful review.
JACOB MARKS
WAYNE KOHN, MD
FLORENCE MAFFEU, NP
Great review!
KATHLEEN DENNIS, RN
This is one of the best DNR lectures Ive ever seen and Ive worked as an ICU RN . This presentation would have been so helpful to some families who I remember expected their love ones to be cured when the patients pillars were failing over a long period in ICU
DIANA HAMMACK, NP
Excellent. Clear and succinct discussion of DNR and patient choices. I like that you may turn around and use this verbatim helping families and patients make informed decisions.
DEBORAH KELSTROM, RN
Very well done! We all have different ways of approaching this, but my greatest take away was your advice on how to approach patients & families to explain what a Full Code looks like versus DNR. So many medical professionals 'do it wrong' ("do everything" "not let you live like a vegetable") and I spend a lot of time explaining, as a nurse, after the crisis what each Code Status entails and how that applies to your loved one. (And that includes a Full Code frail 98 yo grandma and a healthy 50 yo boxer who became a DNR with his first DVT scare.) AND... DNR does NOT mean DO NOT TREAT! (Surprisingly, something that all medical professionals need to be reminded of often.) Thanks for your perspective! Much appreciated!
- Quadruple Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine.
- Over 20 years teaching experience as both an exam preparation instructor and an assistant professor of medicine.
- Experience as a medical director for both a Southern California Physician Assistant Program and a Respiratory Therapy Program.
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