Walking Home from The ICU Episode 31: Nurse Manager
In this episode, Nancy talks with Kali about her transition to the awake and walking ICU as a nurse manager. She explains the nurse manager’s role in preserving a culture of humanity in the ICU. She shares with us how sedation cessation saved her own mother’s life. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton Nancy, thank you
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 30: Speech Language Pathologists
In this episode, Kali talks with Lydia, CCC-SLP, who shares with us the vital role speech therapy plays in helping patients get back to their lives. She explains how awake and walking enables patients to resume eating sooner and preserves cognition. The utilization of speech therapy is explained and applied in ways that the ICU
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 29: Occupational Therapists
In this episode, Kali talks with Merrill, MOT, to find out how occupational therapy is utilized when patients are awake and walking on the ventilator, what role occupational therapy plays in preserving physical and cognitive function during critical illness, and how this enhanced role has impacted Merrill’s his career. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton I’m
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 28: Pharmacists
In this episode, Kali talks with Kathryn, BCCCP. She tells us of her culture shock coming to the awake and walking ICU after years in units around the country and about the role pharmacists play in delirium prevention and preservation of function in the ICU. She also shares how this shift in focus has enhanced
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 27: Physicians
Dr. Badke, MD, shares what it was like to shift perspective and culture as a new intensivist in the awake and walking ICU. He explains what role the physician plays in helping patients walking home after the ICU. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton Dr. Badke, thank you so much for joining us. Dr. Badke Thank you
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 26: Nurse Practitioners
Kali talks with Louise, ACNP, who explains how nurse practitioners are guardians of delirium prevention and preservation of function for their patients in the ICU. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton Louise, thanks so much for joining us. So you’ve done this, the nurse and a nurse practitioner for 27 years, what has your journey throughout
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 25: Respiratory Therapists
Kali talks with Cash, RRT, who shares his tips and secrets to walking and even showering patients on the ventilator. He reveals how having patients awake and walking has impacted his ICU career. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton Cash thanks so much for joining us. So as a respiratory therapist Share with us your expertise,
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 24: Physical Therapists
Kali talks with Angels, DPT about how physical therapists in the awake and walking ICU save lives and enable patients to have their lives back after discharge. They talk about what is it like for physical therapists that get to do more than a passive range of motion with patients on ventilators. Episode Transcription
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 23: Registered Nurses
In this episode, Kali talks with Brandy, an RN who shares with us why she is passionate about keeping brains and bodies strong during critical illness and reveals how humanizing the ICU has impacted her career. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton Brandy, thank you so much for being willing to talk about this with us. I’m
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Walking Home from The ICU Episode 22: Interdisciplinary Teamwork
Patients cannot walk out of the ICU without the efforts and expertise of each discipline. Kali discusses the role each discipline plays in returning patients to their lives. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton I saw a profound statement on Twitter that said, “No one person can overcome delirium.” That is so true. It is as Polly
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When patients are so ill that they require a ventilator in the ICU, the antiquated approach of heavy sedation and immobilization should be avoided in order to help prevent the immense burden of physical and cognitive disabilities suffered during survival. To understand this better, listen to Walking Home From The ICU. You will see what ICU consultant Kali Dayton provides to your team.
Her training will catalyze changes in your practice to improve outcomes, decrease costs, and allow your patients to return to their full lives. Learn to love your job again as you embrace whole person care instead of caring for inert sedated bodies. Kali is leading ICU teams to become Awake and Walking ICUs through true mastery of the ABCDEF Bundle.
I endorse her mission and look forward to the standardization of this evidence-based approach in ICUs all over the world.
Dr. Wes Ely, author of "Every Deep Drawn Breath," leading founder of the ABCDEF Bundle and ICU CAM delirium screening tool, and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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