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Posts
- 10 Commandments of Quality of-End-of-Life
- 10 compelling reasons to provide Intensive Home Care Nursing for long-term mechanically ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy and their Families
- 15 positive and reliable realities about mechanical ventilation with Tracheostomy outside of Intensive Care in somebody’s home
- 3 quick steps on how to position and prepare yourself well mentally, whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
- 3 reasons why long term mechanically ventilated Customers, their families and Intensive Care Units need specialised Intensive Home Care Nursing services in the community
- 3-year-old ventilator dependent preemie Phalynn Graham has never gone home from Intensive Care!
- 5 CONFRONTING QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO ASK WHEN LONG-TERM VENTILATED ADULTS& CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES ARE IN INTENSIVE CARE!
- 5 reasons why Patients need to be treated as Customers and why this is essential, to provide value and tailor made services in Health Care in the 21st Century
- 5 SERIOUS PROBLEMS AND FRUSTRATIONS THAT ARE NOT ADDRESSED FOR LONG-TERM VENTILATED ADULTS& CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES IN INTENSIVE CARE!
- 5 steps to become a better negotiator if your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
- 5 things you can do right now to get your loved one home and out of ICU/PICU if they are long-term ventilated!
- 5 Ways to have control, power and influence while your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
- 5 ways to reduce the average length of stay in Intensive Care for long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies!
- 6 things NOBODY HAS EVER TOLD YOU about long-term ventilation with Tracheostomy at home!
- A young client was going back to Intensive Care regularly! INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME put a stop to it, immediately!
- ABC reports, Home health care “cheaper and safer”!
- Ana-Carolina has been in PICU for over 1,000 days, when can she go home?
- Antidepressants and long-term ventilation in Intensive Care!
- ARE INTENSIVE CARE UNITS OPERATING IN A VACUUM WHEN IT COMES TO END OF LIFE SITUATIONS?
- Be more selfish if your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
- Best practice guidelines for Long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy at Home
- Breaking the vicious cycle of long-term ventilation in Intensive Care by creating a virtuous cycle
- Bring Joshua home’ – funds needed for baby boy who has spent first nine months in hospital
- Budget 2018: Spinal muscular atrophy drug Spinraza (Nusinersen) to be added to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme in Australia!
- Bureaucrats withdraw funds for disabled girl’s private nurse on same day she saved her life!
- Calls for changes in end of life care!
- Can a person be weaned off a ventilator and tracheostomy at home?
- CAN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS ON A VENTILATOR GO HOME TO DIE?
- Can TPN (total parenteral nutrition) be given at home?
- Can you go home on CPAP/BIPAP ventilation?
- CAN YOU LEARN TO LOOK AFTER SOMEONE AT HOME WITH A TRACHEOSTOMY AND VENTILATOR?
- Case study of 22 year old Leon!
- Case Study! 41 year old Michael!
- Charlie Gard, the little baby who wasn’t allowed to die at home!
- Clinical trial provides evidence: Mechanical Home ventilation reduces Hospital readmission for COPD Patients!
- Common sense vs Unwise
- Cutting length of hospital stays could lead to big savings for Victorian health system: auditor-general!
- Dion’s fight to overcome muscular dystrophy so he can continue helping others
- Discharging patients home from ICU poses no added risk!
- Do Intensive Care Units have a “ONE SIZE FITS ALL” approach when it comes to dying?
- DYING AT HOME MORE PEACEFUL THAN IN HOSPITAL AND BETTER FOR LOVED ONES, RESEARCH FINDS!
- Dying at home: Thousands of Victorians unable to receive community-based palliative care, while hospitals attract funding!
- False economy and no quality of life! Keeping long-term ventilated Patients in ICU for longer than needed!
- Family meetings in Intensive Care or the elephant in the room
- Family overjoyed as top court rules doctors must seek consent before taking a patient off life support
- Federal judge says: State must get ‘vent kids’ home!
- Follow this proven 5 step process on how to be in control and influential if your loved one is a long-term Patient in Intensive Care or is facing treatment limitations in Intensive Care
- Freeing up hospital beds—how children can leave hospital sooner!
- From and with “HIGH TECH” medicine to “HIGH TOUCH” INTENSIVE HOME CARE services!
- Going HOME from Intensive Care after a STROKE, a REAL WORLD example!
- Has Intensive Care become obsolete for long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy?
- Health Service In Crisis: Daughter begs for terminally ill father to have care at home
- Helping hospitals and Intensive Care Units in particular, freeing up beds and staff
- Helping Hospitals& ICU’s
- HOME CARE FOR LONG TERM INTENSIVE CARE PATIENTS!
- Home Health Care in Australia in crisis: Medically complex and ventilated Patients are referred to the NDIS
- HOME instead of Intensive Care, a “BEFORE& AFTER” case study!
- How can we fight depression in Intensive Care for long-term ventilated Adults& Children and their Families and make our Customers king?
- How can we improve the Quality of end-of-Life in Intensive Care?
- How can we improve the Quality of Life for long term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy and their Families outside of Intensive Care?
- How do INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME and long-term Intensive Care compare?
- How home care improves the quality of life for long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies!
- How LONG can a person stay in Intensive Care on a ventilator in Australia?
- How long can somebody stay in Intensive Care?
- How long does it take to wake up from a Traumatic brain injury or severe head injury?
- How long should a Patient be on a ventilator before having a Tracheostomy?
- How much longer does my son need to stay in Intensive Care with Guillain-Barré Syndrome?
- HOW THE ICU CAME HOME!
- HOW TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE FUNDING FOR LONG-TERM VENTILATED ADULTS& CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES!
- How to always achieve your goals whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
- How to be more Client and family focused when looking after long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies!
- How to better manage limited resources in Intensive Care!
- HOW TO GET RESULTS WHEN LOOKING AFTER LONG-TERM VENTILATED ADULTS& CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES!
- How to get what you want whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
- How to improve a niche within Intensive Care
- How to increase the number of acute admissions in Intensive Care!
- How to live independently at home with mechanical ventilation and other medically complex conditions!
- How to make Intensive Care more Patient and family friendly!
- How to make sure that your values and beliefs are known whilst your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
- How to provide more Privacy and Dignity for long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy
- How to quickly take control and have real power and influence if your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
- HOW TO SAVE $2,000 PER BED DAY IN INTENSIVE CARE!
- HOW TO SELECT THE BEST OPTIONS WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE IS STUCK IN ICU ON A VENTILATOR WITH TRACHEOSTOMY!
- How to stand up to a Government Health Department – and win
- How to stay positive if your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care
- How to take control if your loved one has a severe brain injury and is critically ill in Intensive Care
- How to transition a ventilated adult or child from Intensive Care to a home care environment!
- How we can help you
- How you and your Family are perceived is directly linked to the care your critically ill loved one is receiving or not receiving in Intensive Care
- How you can focus on making health dollars go further and really make a difference
- If you want good nursing care in your own home instead of Intensive Care, you have to be brave enough to point out what can be improved in Intensive Care!
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME ACHIEVED ACCREDITATION AGAIN AND REMAINS THE FIRST AND ONLY ACCREDITED AND CERTIFIED INTENSIVE HOME CARE SERVICE PROVIDER IN AUSTRALIA AS OF AUGUST 2015!
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME Introduction
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME is it evidence based?
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME now part of HealthXL
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME nursing services for a medically complex and ventilated toddler, making a seamless transition from hospital to home to free up hospital beds!
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME services for a 15 month old toddler, another “win-win” situation and success story
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME, how to do more with less!
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME, the opportunity of a lifetime!
- Intensive Care at Home: An Opportunity or Threat?
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME: Better home care solutions for long-term ventilated adults & children with tracheostomies!
- INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME: what we are all about!
- Intensive Care at its best?
- Introducing the concept of Intensive Home Care Nursing with case studies
- Introduction
- Is an “NFR” or a “withdrawal of treatment” “in the best interest” for long-term ventilated Adults& Children with tracheostomies in Intensive Care?
- IS IT A GOOD IDEA FOR LONG-TERM VENTILATED ADULTS& CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES TO STAY IN INTENSIVE CARE FOR WEEKS OR MONTHS?
- Is it ethical to leave long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies in Intensive Care?
- IS IT STILL “BUSINESS AS USUAL” FOR INTENSIVE CARE UNITS WHEN IT COMES TO LONG-TERM VENTILATED ADULTS& CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES?
- Is looking after long-term ventilated Patients with tracheostomies in Intensive Care “best practice”?
- It changed my entire outlook of life and of Intensive Care…
- July 2012 Newsletter
- Length of stay in INTENSIVE CARE and how INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME can reduce it
- Living with disability – and planning a good death
- Long-term mechanical ventilation in Intensive Care with Tracheostomy, what are the best options?
- Long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy, we must not OSTRACISE them
- LONG-TERM VENTILATION AND TRACHEOSTOMY IN INTENSIVE CARE, 3 REASONS WHY HEALTH CONSUMERS NEED TO DEMAND MORE
- Long-term ventilation and tracheostomy in Intensive Care, does Patient care need to be re-invented?
- Long-term ventilation with Tracheostomy and Intensive Care, the EMOTIONAL PRICE Patients and Families PAY!
- Long-term ventilation with Tracheostomy, finally a sustainable care model is emerging!
- Long-term ventilation, tracheostomy and Intensive Care, it’s time for a new paradigm!
- Lucy ventilated at home instead of Intensive Care!
- Majority of Australians not dying the way they want to, Grattan Institute report finds, as care becomes more institutionalised!
- Mary in her late sixties spent the last year of her life at home despite being intermittently ventilator dependent and on Chemotherapy!
- Mikey can leave ICU and go home with ICU/PICU nurses after a 16 month stay!
- Mismatch between demand and supply of end-of-life care: Introducing Competition and Informed User Choice into Human Services: Reforms to Human Services
- My 10 commandments of Quality of end of life for long-term mechanically ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy and their Families
- My 11 commandments of Quality of Life for long-term mechanically ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy and their Families
- My 73 year old Mom had a stroke and is intubated in Intensive Care. She can’t come off the ventilator and the breathing tube, can she have a tracheostomy and go home and have INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME?
- My sister has been in ICU for 21 weeks with Tracheostomy and still ventilated. What do we need to do?
- MY TWO YEAR OLD SON COULD DIE AT ANY MOMENT!
- NDIS leaves black hole of abolished care services & DIS abandons disabled to state hospitals
- Nelson Mandela is receiving Intensive Care treatment in his home!
- One-way extubation at home instead of in Intensive Care!
- OVERHAUL OF AUSTRALIAN HEALTH SYSTEM NEEDED TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO DIE AT HOME: STUDY
- Palliative Care Australia is calling for better end of life care services!
- Palliative care hospitalisations rising for Australians at end-of-life!
- Parents of 2 year-old on life support fight to bring her home!
- Personal lifestyle choices don’t stop in Intensive Care!
- PODCAST WITH ANTHONY BARTL, A YOUNG MAN WHO IS VENTILATED WITH TRACHEOSTOMY AT HOME! LISTEN TO ANTHONY’S INSPIRATIONAL STORY!
- Quality of End of Life
- Report from ICU nurse working in the home!
- Support coordination and complex/specialist support coordination
- Ten compelling Reasons
- The 10 myths about long-term ventilation with Tracheostomy and Intensive Care
- The 101 guide how to look after long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies at home!
- The 3 mistakes Intensive Care Units CONSTANTLY make, but they are UNAWARE OF, when they are looking after LONG- TERM VENTILATED Adults& Children with TRACHEOSTOMY!
- The 3 most dangerous mistakes that you are making but you are unaware of, if your loved one is a critically ill Patient in Intensive Care
- The 3 most dangerous trends facing long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies!
- The 3 most dangerous trends facing long-term ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies!
- The 3 reasons why long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy and their Families CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER- (Australia is 15 years behind when it comes to INTENSIVE HOME CARE compared to other first world countries)
- The 3 things you need to anticipate if your loved one is critically ill in Intensive Care(and it’s not what you think it is)
- THE 5 BIGGEST INEFFICIENCIES IN INTENSIVE CARE IN AUSTRALIA!
- THE 5 REASONS WHY INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME IS NOT DISRUPTING INTENSIVE CARE!
- The 5 reasons why offering additional Intensive Home Care services are a massive advantage to Intensive Care Units, long-term ventilated Adults& Children and their Families!
- The 5 things you didn’t know INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME can do for your ICU
- The little girl trapped between hospital and home!
- Today I want to introduce a friend of mine…
- Tracheostomy and ventilator dependency, why HOME is the only place to be!
- TRACHEOSTOMY AND WEANING OFF THE VENTILATOR IN ICU, HOW LONG CAN IT TAKE?
- Tracheostomy and weaning off the ventilator in Intensive Care, how long can it take?
- Transitioning long-term ventilated Adults& Children out of Intensive Care- making it happen with the latest guidelines
- Travelling with long-term ventilated adults on a ventilator with tracheostomy, not a gimmick but a reality!
- Treatment at home can be 20-30% cheaper!
- VENTILATION AND TRACHEOSTOMY – HOW LONG IS THE INTENSIVE CARE STAY?
- Warning- this one is Personal- Why INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME delivers on its promises
- We can’t always cure long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy, but we can always care for our Clients’ Quality of Life and/or their Quality of-end-of-Life
- What an extension of Intensive Care looks like in the real world
- What are indications for mechanical home ventilation and Intensive Care At Home?
- What are normal visiting hours in Intensive Care?
- What are the best set-ups for INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME services? Do I need a big house?
- WHAT ARE THE SIDE EFFECTS OF HAVING LONG-TERM VENTILATED ADULTS& CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES IN INTENSIVE CARE?
- What care is needed for INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME?
- What do ventilated adults& children with tracheostomies need for in- home care?
- What does it really take to put the best practice guidelines for mechanical home ventilation out in the field?
- What happens if you can’t come off the ventilator in intensive care?
- What is the prognosis after my critically ill loved one’s brain has not had sufficient oxygen supply(hypoxic brain injury)?
- What is the quality of life after a tracheostomy?
- What is the survival rate after a tracheostomy?
- What the doctors and the nurses behaviour in Intensive Care is telling you about the culture in an Intensive Care Unit
- WHAT TO DO IF THERE ARE NO OR FEW PERCEIVED ALTERNATIVES FOR LONG-TERM VENTILATED ADULTS& CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES IN INTENSIVE CARE!
- WHAT TO DO IF THERE ARE NO OR FEW PERCEIVED ALTERNATIVES FOR LONG-TERM VENTILATED ADULTS& CHILDREN WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES IN INTENSIVE CARE!
- What would happen if long-term ventilated adults & children in Intensive Care and their families would design (home) care?
- What you need to do if your loved one in Intensive Care is brain dead or is considered for organ donation
- What you need to do if your loved one is dying in Intensive Care(part one)
- What you need to do if your loved one is dying in Intensive Care(part two)
- When a Loved One Is in the ICU: The Symptom Burden of Family Caregivers
- When can a tracheostomy be removed?
- When is the right time to leave INTENSIVE CARE (ICU) and use INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME?
- When should YOU consider HOME CARE for VENTILATED Adults or Children with TRACHEOSTOMY?
- When will politicians recognise the value of INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME?
- Where do long-term ventilated adults& children in Australia go?
- Where do you want to die? Most Australians say at home, but end life in hospital!
- Who else wants to save some money and resources in Intensive Care?
- Why an empty Intensive Care bed is worth some money and creates a more Patient and Family centred model of care!
- WHY CURRENT FUNDING MODELS IN INTENSIVE CARE ARE NOT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF LONG-TERM VENTILATED PATIENTS WITH TRACHEOSTOMIES!
- Why does my loved one need a Tracheostomy in Intensive Care?
- WHY GOING TO THE WARD OR TO DIE ARE NOT THE ONLY OPTIONS TO LEAVE INTENSIVE CARE- AND WHY THERE IS A PROVEN 3RD OPTION!
- Why Home Care for long-term ventilated Adults& Children with Tracheostomy is a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT!
- Why INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME is NOT killing a “SACRED COW” by offering home care services!
- Why long-term ventilated adults & children with tracheostomies in the community need ICU nurses and why it’s best practice!
- Why specialized services for Long-term ventilated adults and children with Tracheostomy outside of Intensive Care in the community are becoming a vital necessity!
- Why Stephen Hawking lived a good life until 76 on a ventilator with tracheostomy!
- Why you must make up your own mind about your critically ill loved one’s situation in Intensive Care even if you’re not a doctor or a nurse!
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