By Paula Spencer, Caring.com senior editor
People often adhere to a code of conduct about the end of life that's just not rooted in common sense or reality -- especially when it comes to how to talk to someone who's dying, in their final days or hours. Hospice nurse Maggie Callanan, who has attended more than 2,000 deaths, wrote her book Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life in order to take on these myths:
Myth: Don't cry in front of the dying.
They know you're sad. Having the courage to bare your emotions gives the dying person permission to be candid about his or her own feelings. Your tears are evidence of your love. And they can also be a relief to the person, telegraphing that you understand what's happening.Myth: Keep the children away.
People often steer kids away from death so they'll remember the person in a good light and not be frightened. But most kids do well with simple explanations of what's happening; facts are usually less scary than their vivid imaginations. By cordoning off a child from a natural part of life, you also deprive the dying person of a beloved, comforting presence.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Dealing with Death and Dying | Myths of Coping with Death | Caring.com
Common Smoking Triggers - smoking - Health.com
Conquer your cravings
The physical withdrawal symptoms of nicotine are notoriously difficult to overcome, but the psychological cravings for cigarettes can be even worse.
According to addiction medicine specialist Michael Miller, MD, smoking is hard to shake partly because it’s such a repetitive habit. “Smokers light up so often that they make associations with it—driving, for instance, or talking on the phone or drinking a cup of coffee,” he says.
To successfully quit smoking, it’s important to know the triggers that send you looking for a cigarette and figure out ways to defuse them.
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15 Ways Smoking Ruins Your Looks - Page 1 - MSN Health & Fitness - Quit Smoking
If you smoke, you already know you need to quit. It's bad for your heart, lungs, brain, and even your sex life.
But let's face it: You'd have kicked the habit yesterday if smoking's ill effects were a bit more obvious. What if each cigarette created a black pockmark on your face, for instance?
Well, smoking does damage your looks. Discover 15 ways smoking is ruining your appearance.
Bags under your eyes
Don't you hate it when you can't get a good night's sleep—and it shows on your face?
If you smoke, you're four times as likely as nonsmokers to report feeling unrested after a night's sleep, according to Johns Hopkins study.
Why the lack of shut-eye? It's possible that nightly nicotine withdrawal could be causing you to toss and turn. And unfortunately, poor sleep doesn't equal pretty.
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"Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday." -
"Waste no tears over the grieves of yesterday." - Euripides
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Secondhand smoke may affect kids' mental health| Reuters
Secondhand smoke may affect kids' mental health http://bit.ly/gLdyTe
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Respiratory, Pulmonary, Anatomy, Conditions, Illnesses, Direct Patient Care
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- Respiratory Associations
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Paul Arnote's Respiratory Care Links:"Welcome to my page of Respiratory Care links. I am a Registered Respiratory Therapist, and an instructor at the Kansas City campus of Concorde Career College. I also work PRN (quite regularly) at an area Kansas City hospital. Below you will find a plethora of links related to the field of Respiratory Care. I am placing these here not only for the benefit of my students, but all RTs, both in the Kansas City area and worldwide."
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Tobacco Free Nurses:"Together with QuitNet we have created a smoking cessation site tailored for nurses and nursing students who want to quit smoking. From this site you can freely access QuitNet's special Nurses section, where you'll find tools and resources you can use to help quit smoking, scientific guides about quitting, expert counselors available to take your questions, and most importantly, other nurses like you who want to quit! Click here to go to our QuitNet entry page and take advantage of your membership sponsored by the Tobacco Free Nurses project."
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Emergency Department Nurses, Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
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Sleep Apnea Monitor Turned off or Ignored By Nursing Staff, Patient's Coding Goes Unnoticed.
Monitors and Monitored patients present special challenges to practicing nurses. Like a call bell, when alarms on a monitor are activated, they can signal benign or life-threatening. . .
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How Your Lungs Work by Craig C. Freudenrich, Ph.D., Howstuffworks.com:"You breathe in and out anywhere from 15 to 25 times per minute without even thinking about it. When you exercise, your breathing rate goes up -- again, without you thinking about it. You breathe so regularly that it is easy to take your lungs for granted. You can't even stop yourself from breathing if you try!"
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Management of Airway Emergencies, AARC Clinical Practice Guideline:"Management of airway emergencies (MAE) for the purpose of this guideline encompasses all care necessary to deal with sudden and often life-threatening events affecting natural and artificial airways and involves the identification, assessment, and treatment of patients in danger of losing or not being able to maintain an adequate airway, including the newborn. This includes (1) identification of the causes of airway emergencies; (2) management of airway emergencies prior to tracheal intubation; (3) use of adjunctive equipment and special techniques for establishing, maintaining, and monitoring effective ventilation; (4) translaryngeal tracheal intubation, including nasal and oral tracheal intubation; (5) transtracheal catheter ventilation, (6) percutaneous dilational cricothyrotomy, and; (7) surgical cricothyrotomy."
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Secondhand smoke may affect kids' mental health | Reuters
Breathing secondhand smoke could increase a child's risk of mental and behavioral disorders, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), suggests a new study.
The study adds to evidence suggesting that kids of mothers who smoked while pregnant may be more likely to have behavioral problems. Secondhand smoke exposure has also been linked to heart and breathing problems in kids.
"It's time for us to begin to prevent children's exposure to (secondhand smoke) if we are serious about preventing these diseases," Dr. Bruce Lanphear, who heads the Cincinnati Children's Environmental Health Center, told Reuters Health.
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"If you think you are too small to be effective, y
"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito." - Betty Reese
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So quickly think of the 8 closest women in your li
So quickly think of the 8 closest women in your life......got it??!! Okay, now sadly 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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I think phenomenal women are the ones that survive
I think phenomenal women are the ones that survive Breast Cancer and fight like hell to live,support us angelsofcancerart-c.rafsky
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Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention
Help create a Generation Free of #HIV #AIDS: http://malecircumcision.org (WHO/ #UN AIDS) & http://bit.ly/SGumR (CDC)
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Obesity In Childhood Leads To Poor Posture And Back Pain
Obesity In Childhood Leads To Poor Posture And Back Pain http://mnt.to/3TfQ #pediatrics
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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up havin
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough. -Oprah
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The morgue went to maximum capacity today and all
The morgue went to maximum capacity today and all I could think about was what a bad day it would be for the zombie apocalypse.
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"The most courageous act is still to think for you
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." ~Coco Chanel
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I thought my quick weight loss plan was going to w
I thought my quick weight loss plan was going to work, but the blood bank would only take one unit.
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High-deductible plans reduce spending, preventive care - Related Stories - DiabetesPro SmartBrief
High-deductible plans reduce spending, preventive care. http://sbne.ws/r/7a5n #hcr #publicoption #prevention #risk #cost #nurse
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Find Health Care Options - Public Information - MOHLTC
Nurse Practitioners can help manage a chronic condition #healthcareoptions http://ow.ly/4sS8B
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I make mental notes of people I see buying "lunch"
I make mental notes of people I see buying "lunch" at gas stations. That way, I'll know why they look familiar when they become my patients.
Vital Signs: Teen Pregnancy --- United States, 1991--2009
Background: In 2009, approximately 410,000 teens aged 15--19 years gave birth in the United States, and the teen birth rate remains higher than in other developed countries.
Methods: To describe U.S. trends in teen births and related factors, CDC used data on 1) teen birth rates during 1991--2009 from the National Vital Statistics System, 2) sexual intercourse and contraceptive use among high school students during 1991--2009 from the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey, and 3) sex education, parent communication, use of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs), and receipt of reproductive health services among teens aged 15--19 years from the 2006--2008 National Survey of Family Growth.
Results: In 2009, the national teen birth rate was 39.1 births per 1,000 females, a 37% decrease from 61.8 births per 1,000 females in 1991 and the lowest rate ever recorded. State-specific teen birth rates varied from 16.4 to 64.2 births per 1,000 females and were highest among southern states. Birth rates for black and Hispanic teens were 59.0 and 70.1 births per 1,000 females, respectively, compared with 25.6 for white teens. From 1991 to 2009, the percentage of high school students who ever had sexual intercourse decreased from 54% to 46%, and the percentage of students who had sexual intercourse in the past 3 months but did not use any method of contraception at last sexual intercourse decreased from 16% to 12%. From 1999 to 2009, the percentage of students who had sexual intercourse in the past 3 months and used dual methods at last sexual intercourse (condoms with either birth control pills or the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera) increased from 5% to 9%. During 2006--2008, 65% of female teens and 53% of male teens received formal sex education that covered saying no to sex and provided information on methods of birth control. Overall, 44% of female teens and 27% of male teens had spoken with their parents about both topics, but among teens who had ever had sexual intercourse, 20% of females and 31% of males had not spoken with their parents about either topic. Only 2% of females who had sexual intercourse in the past 3 months used LARCs at last sexual intercourse.
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CDC Sees EHRs As Public Health 'Game Changer' -- InformationWeek
Sometimes forgotten in the rush to install electronic health records (EHRs) is that improving population and public health is a major goal of the federal meaningful use EHR incentive program. But many in the public health community are counting on greater EHR adoption and interoperability among physicians and hospitals to help identify and respond to future disease outbreaks, according to a top government health IT official."Public health agencies, from local to state to federal, have been building information technology for years, but because we don't have a lot of connections to y'all, we don't have a lot of information to share," Dr. Seth Foldy, director of the public health informatics and technology program office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Tuesday. "In the future, we assume that most of our public health allies will be perched in front of their EHRs."
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