Charting New Paths: The Nurse Practitioner's Role in Leading Specialty-Aligned Palliative Care Consult Teams.

Palliative care has expanded beyond its traditional focus on the oncology population to meet the growing needs of patients with diverse diagnoses. A model of specialty-aligned palliative care has emerged as a means of integrating palliative care into various clinical specialties. Equipped with expert clinical skills, a holistic approach to patient care, and an emphasis on interprofessional collaboration, nurse practitioners are uniquely positioned to lead these teams.

A Retrospective Observational Study Exploring 30- and 90-Day Outcomes for Patients With COVID-19 After Percutaneous Tracheostomy and Gastrostomy Placement.

Objectives: To determine the 30- and 90-day outcomes of COVID-19 patients receiving tracheostomy and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG).

Design: Retrospective observational study.

Setting: Multisite, inpatient.

Patient with a devastating embolic stroke: using weekly multidisciplinary ethics rounds in the neuroscience intensive care unit to facilitate care and communication.

The challenges families face in making decisions for loved ones after a severe stroke are best supported when the treatment team has the opportunity to share information and perspectives. Weekly multidisciplinary ethics rounds provides a very good forum for just such discussions. Using a case example, this article describes the framework for ethics rounds and its utility in a neuroscience intensive care unit.

Acute pulmonary embolism.

Over the next 5 days, Mr. R continues to respond well to treatment. He’ll continue on the prescribed warfarin regimen, with scheduled follow-up to evaluate his condition and adjust the dosage if necessary.