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17 Jul 2025
A great 18 minute summary of my experience from the Langone Critical Care Cardiology Symposium in 2024, NYC youtu.be/h_QFZjmdkNQ
10 Jan 2024
Riding the Storm: My experience in a VT Storm...
Iβm usually the one looking at squiggly heart tracings or talking about critically ill patients and resuscitation techniques. Itβs a strange twist of fate when you find yourself becoming the subject of your own professional discussions.
In a recent article I penned for the Journal of Emergency Nursing, I delve into a personal journey that's quite different from my usual topics of heart rhythms, waveforms, or advanced medical technology. This piece is about my harrowing experience with a VT (Ventricular Tachycardia) Storm, an event that nearly cost me my life. It's a recount of what I went through as a patient, including the many moments I βslept throughβ during this critical time.
This experience has not only deepened my understanding as a healthcare professional but also given me a new perspective on patient experience in emergency and critical care settings. I believe it's crucial for us, as medical professionals, to sometimes step into our patients' shoes, to truly comprehend the impact of our care and interventions.
I invite you to read my story jenonline.org/content/ymen-bβ¦ . Itβs a reminder of the unpredictability of life and the importance of empathy in healthcare. I hope it resonates with you, whether you're a fellow healthcare professional or someone who's ever found themselves on the other side of the hospital bed. Your thoughts and reflections on the article are most welcome.
@sholarichards
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Surviving the ICU Is Not the Same as Recovering From the ICU
A growing body of research on Post-Intensive Care Syndrome, ICU-acquired weakness, delirium, immobility, sleep disruption, and post-discharge function shows that many ICU survivors leave the hospital with physical, cognitive, and emotional problems that follow them home.
One overlooked problem is falls.
A 2025 prospective observational study in Critical Care Medicine followed adult ICU survivors for 12 months after hospital discharge. Patients were included if they required invasive mechanical ventilation for at least 48 hours and spent at least 4 days in the ICU.1
The findings should make ICU teams, emergency nurses, hospitalists, case managers, physical therapists, pharmacists, and discharge planners rethink how they prepare patients and families for life after critical illness.
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Older adult falls are often described as ground-level falls, but that phrase can understate the risk. A fall from standing in an anticoagulated 86-year-old with frailty, osteoporosis, poor balance, and mild cognitive impairment can produce catastrophic injury.
For emergency departments, this is not just a public health statistic. Falls drive EMS calls, ED visits, trauma activations, imaging, fractures, intracranial hemorrhage evaluations, admissions, loss of independence, nursing home placement, and preventable deaths.
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Updated ResusMed's Emergency, Trauma, Resuscitation and Critical Care Resource Links.
Did I miss any good ones?
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Finally, a marketing claim with full transparency: βResusMedβs TNCC and ENPC students are 42% smarter.β
Fine print: We made that up.
But unlike most fake LinkedIn statistics, at least we admitted it.
Here is what we are not making up:
ResusMed runs live virtual TNCC and ENPC classes for nurses across the country, with frequent class options and a process designed to be simple for both individual nurses and hospital teams.
No travel.
No hotel.
No βwe can only train six people next quarter.β
No hunting through random class calendars hoping something works.
No spreadsheet titled Final_Final_Training_Schedule_REVISED_v7.
Just live virtual emergency nursing education that fits real nurse schedules.
For individual nurses, that means easier access to TNCC and ENPC certification or renewal.
For hospital teams, that means simpler scheduling, less administrative friction, and fewer staff pulled away from the department for travel.
The 42% smarter claim is fake.
The easier training process is real.
Corporate training options: ResusMed.com/corporate-tncc-β¦
What is the most suspicious statistic you have ever seen in a healthcare marketing post?
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The Hidden Cost of Running TNCC and ENPC Training In-House
Your hospitalβs TNCC and ENPC program may be more expensive than it looks. The class fee is only one line item. The real cost is often buried in educator time, benefit-loaded labor, scheduling friction, backfill, equipment setup, course administration, underfilled classes, outside student losses, and missed operational work.
Hospitals often assume in-house TNCC and ENPC training saves money because the educators are already employed, the classroom already exists, and the nurses need the courses anyway. That is exactly why the cost gets missed.
resusmed.com/the-hidden-costβ¦
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Why Every ED Nurse Needs ENPC Certification: Pediatric Readiness Starts at the Bedside
Every emergency department cares for children. The question is whether every ED nurse is prepared to recognize, assess, stabilize, and escalate pediatric emergencies before the child deteriorates.
resusmed.com/why-every-ed-nuβ¦
#PediatricReadiness #PediatricEmergencyCareCoordinator #PECC #SimplyBetterEducation
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We had two options:
Spend the budget on polished ads.
Spend the budget on making the best TNCC and ENPC training easier to access.
We chose option 2.
Which is why we now offer a large selection of live virtual class dates, and also why our current ad campaign appears to have been developed inside a questionable public restroom.
That part is unfortunate.
The class access part is not.
At ResusMed, we focus on making TNCC and ENPC training easier for nurses and hospital teams by offering frequent live virtual classes, simple registration, and a more convenient way to get the training done without unnecessary travel and scheduling headaches.
So if the ad looks like we ran out of marketing money, thatβs because we did.
We spent it on the thing that actually matters:
More access to classes.
If your team needs a TNCC or ENPC course, or want to simplify training for your team, message us.
The marketing may be sketchy.
The training is not.
#TNCC #ENPC #EmergencyNurse #HospitalLeadership #SimplyBetterEducation
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Please buy our TNCC and ENPC classes so I can quit having to deface bathroom walls!!!
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Every Emergency Department is a pediatric Emergency Department the moment a sick or injured child arrives.
That is true whether you are a pediatric trauma center, a large community hospital, a rural ED, a critical access hospital, or a freestanding emergency department.
And if your EDβs Pediatric Readiness plan is simply:
βOur nurses have PALS.β
You may have a problem.
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Over 110 organizations are coming together for this yearβs conference β and we canβt wait to welcome them! π
From industry leaders and innovative partners to emerging organizations making an impact, this yearβs event will be filled with meaningful connections, collaboration, and opportunities to engage with professionals from across the field.
We look forward to seeing everyone soon! Not yet registered? There is still time! Register today. americandeliriumsociety.org/β¦
#ADS26DEN #americandeliriumsociety #deliriumawareness #delirium
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ResusMed gives your organization a cost-saving corporate TNCC and ENPC training solution with access to 800 live virtual TNCC and ENPC classes annually, nurse self-scheduling through corporate coupon codes, reduced travel expenses, less internal coordination, and streamlined itemized monthly billing.
resusmed.com/corporate-tncc-β¦
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A Nurseβs Guide to TNCC Courses and Certification Pathways
If you are an emergency nurse, travel nurse, trauma nurse, or a nurse trying to break into the emergency department, you have probably seen one requirement over and over again:
TNCC certification required.
And if you are like most nurses, your next thought was probably something along the lines of:
βGreat. Another required class I need to fit into my schedule between shifts, charting, mandatory modules, and pretending I have a normal sleep cycle.β
The good news is that TNCC is one of the most valuable courses an emergency nurse can take. It is practical, trauma-focused, and built around the type of patient care that actually happens in the emergency department.
The other good news is that nurses now have more options than ever for completing TNCC. Depending on your experience level, schedule, and learning preference, you may be able to complete a full TNCC provider course, TNCC renewal course, TNCC challenger option, in-person course, or even better, live virtual TNCC class.
ResusMed.com/what-is-trauma-β¦
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Every Emergency Department is a pediatric Emergency Department the moment a sick or injured child arrives.
And if your EDβs Pediatric Readiness plan is simply, βOur nurses have PALS,β you have a big problem.
resusmed.com/enpc-for-emergeβ¦
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As nurses, educators, and healthcare professionals, we understand the weight of service.
But today, we pause to honor those whose service cost them everything.
This Memorial Day, ResusMed remembers the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces who gave their lives protecting our country.
Their sacrifice allows us to live, work, teach, and care for others in freedom.
Today, we remember them with gratitude, humility, and deep respect.
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Here are the 10 things I wish I knew before taking the Trauma Nursing Core Course ((TNCC), especially if you are trying to pass the first time, avoid unnecessary stress, and not look like your brain left the room during skills testing.
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The Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) is designed to help nurses build the knowledge, critical thinking, and trauma assessment skills needed to care for injured patients. TNCC focuses on a standardized approach to trauma nursing care, rapid identification of life-threatening injuries, and evidence-based interventions. ENA describes TNCC as an industry-leading course that gives nurses the knowledge and critical thinking skills to provide high-quality trauma care.
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π No safe benzodiazepine threshold exists for delirium in critically ill children. Avoidance strategies should replace dose-minimization approaches in PICU sedation protocols.
β‘οΈ Read the #openaccess research in CCE: ow.ly/Pi0m50Z0oOE
#PedsICU #CritCareExplore @SCCM
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