J Contin Educ Nurs
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Educators within Children's Hospital Boston created a mock code facilitation curriculum and expectations for nurses to become Surgical Programs' mock code facilitators. Since implementation, the number of mock codes and the number of mock code participants have tripled.
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The Emory University Center for Public Health Preparedness held two summits for nurses that were evaluated by survey. Participants cited multiple deficiencies and challenges with integrating emergency preparedness into nursing curricula. ⋯ More than three fourths of respondents reported incorporating emergency preparedness education into their curricula after summit attendance. Nursing professionals could use summits to encourage active practitioners to pursue continuing education and to initiate efforts to incorporate emergency preparedness and related health care issues into the curricula of schools of nursing.
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Heart failure is a growing concern in health care today. Treatment options for end-stage heart failure include providing for optimal medical management or heart transplant. A left ventricular assist device may augment medical management and act as a bridge to transplant or lifetime therapy to promote quality of life.
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Time and again, hospital code teams are dispatched to a patient in cardiac arrest only to find their resuscitative efforts unsuccessful. Are there earlier interventions that may have saved the patient? Do any warning signs exist before the patient actually goes into a full code or cardiac arrest event? The answer is a repeated yes, and the solution is a rapid response team.