J.E. is the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) of a mid-sized regional hospital. One evening, an older person was found unresponsive at a nearby long-term care facility, placed on ventilator support, and transferred to J.E.’s hospital. This person is awake and alert and has end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and severed rheumatoid arthritis with little likelihood of being weaned from the ventilator. Due to the patient’s […]





