Libralady

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1. When do you need an order to increase dosage of med?

   Libralady replied to Libralady's topic in Hospice

   Thank you Ginger! You are most kind. I love Hospice Nursing but I still have much to learn.

2. When do you need an order to increase dosage of med?

   Libralady replied to Libralady's topic in Hospice

   Thanks so much! Before I left, my patient's face changed dramaticly. Before, there were some grimmaces and furrowing of the brow which decreased when I dosed him. But 1 1/2 hours before I left, his face became very relaxed. Believe it or not, thoug...

3. When do you need an order to increase dosage of med?

   Libralady replied to Libralady's topic in Hospice

   Ginger, I was in a private home. In my previous Hospice job, we almost never used IV meds, only sublingual, patches or suppositories. This is a new Hospice job and some of the other nurses are saying that this hospice job is starting to use CADD pum...

4. When do you need an order to increase dosage of med?

   Libralady replied to Libralady's topic in Hospice

   Thank you. My patient was totally unresponsive so I was dosing him. Is there a good source for protocals for dosing medications in these instances? Most certainly, if he was responsive and not kept comfortable, I would have called. But I was able t...

5. When do you need an order to increase dosage of med?

   Libralady posted a topic in Hospice

   Greetings, I have a question about the concentration and prn dosage of a medication. At work tonight, I have a Hospice patient who was on Diladud 5 mg/hr via CADD pump with breakthrough pain boluses of 1.5 mg. every 10 minutes prn for pain. My patien...