CPR with Resuscitation Quality Improvement Program and Episode 409




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Summary: An Olympic athlete deals with a chronic immune system disorder and we’ll look at the American Heart Association’s new Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) program and how it helped one hospital staffer perform high-quality CPR in a witness cardiac arrest in the field. If that’s what you’re looking for, you found it. It’s the Nursing Show.<br> The Nursing Show is a proud member of the <a title="ProMed Network site" href="http://promednetwork.com/" target="_blank">ProMed Podcast Network</a>.<br> Brought to you by the <a href="http://amzn.to/2a5gTnz" target="_blank">Extreme Medical Services novels</a>. Check out this innovative new supernatural EMS series for some fun reading. And also brought to you by <a title="Med Math Book" href="http://medmathsimplified.com/" target="_blank">Med Math Simplified</a>. Check out the book for nurses, students and other medical professionals on Amazon, or your favorite bookseller online. Get it on <a title="Amazon Med Math Simplified link" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;field-keywords=med%20math%20simplified&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;sprefix=med%20mat%2Caps%2C169&amp;tag=themediccastp-20&amp;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;linkId=PEOAZ4JTRW3TJGOA">Amazon.com</a>.<br> And by <a href="http://physio-control.com" target="_blank">Physio-Control Inc.</a> and their tools to help nurses and other health care professionals continue to innovate their patient care.<br> —-<br> Get the Free Nursing Show Mobile App<br> <a title="Free Android App" href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nursingshow.android.nursingshow"></a><br> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nursing-show-weekly-podcast/id723620054?mt=8&amp;uo=4&amp;at=10laVP"></a><br> —-<br> Welcome to the Show<br> <a href="http://www.nursingshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Female-Nurses-e1404474887500.jpg"></a><br> Good day and welcome to this week’s episode of the Nursing Show podcast for nurses, by nurses. I’m your host Jamie Davis and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for checking out the show this week. First up, in this week’s nursing news items, we have a look at the new <a href="http://cpr.heart.org/AHAECC/CPRAndECC/Training/RQI/UCM_476470_RQI.jsp" target="_blank">American Heart Association (AHA) RQI program</a> to increase proficiency with CPR performance. Then we have a look at Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres and her life as a competitive swimmer dealing with plaque psoriasis. We’ll have that and more later in this episode after the news.<br> Before we get to the news though, I’d like you to make sure you follow up on all of the information from this and every episode by heading over to NursingShow.com and checking out the links in each episode’s show notes. There are also other articles and links there to things like the free Nursing Show mobile app, student nurse tips and a whole lot more. Make sure you are following up so you know how what I talk about in the show each week is applied using your own nursing scope of practice.<br> If you want to get back in touch with me, please drop me an email. You can send those e-mails in to <a title="email link" href="mailto:nursingshow@gmail.com">NursingShow@Gmail.com</a>. I love to hear from you and I make sure I respond back to every email that comes in. Send me links to news items you’d like me to cover, interview suggestions with you or somebody you know.<br> Also, a special thank you to <a href="http://Physio-Control.com" target="_blank">Physio-Control</a> and the <a href="http://cpr.heart.org" target="_blank">American Heart Association and their excellent CPR resources</a> for a special partnership supporting this episode of the podcast. That’s it. I will have more contact information coming up later on in this episode. Let’s get into this week’s news items coming right up!<br> —<br>