1.Nurse should use their effective communication skills to develop rapport with patient and family .Emphasize that the family about patient condition and treatment method.Nurse should build a good interpersonal relationship with others and also the cause for the CODE.
2.Defibrillation is used in life threatening situations like cardiopulmonary shock,ventricular arrythmias , etc.Defibrillator is a device which delivers electric current to stop any arrythmia and regain the normal sinus rythm. A nurse can handle a AED and also deliver shock to a patient.Priorities are to assess the vital signs including airway patency and also confirm the oxygen saturation . Monitoring these can give us the current situation of the patient whether patient has regained normal sinus rhythm .
3.Second nurses role:
Critical Thinking Questions: Code Management 1. Discuss nursing strategies to be implemented during and after a cod...