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1. Assessing Anxiety, SOB, nausea in patients that can not rate the symptom

   nashva replied to nashva's topic in Hospice

   The EMR we use only has other scales for Pain (PAINAD, FLACC) Does anyone know of other scales? People say yes there are, but I am looking for evidenced based practice. If a person cannot verbalize a number, then there should be tools that can be u...

2. Assessing Anxiety, SOB, nausea in patients that can not rate the symptom

   nashva posted a topic in Hospice

   I recently did an audit and found that nurses were not using the scales in our EMR to assign a number to a symptom. The rationale I received was "well they can't tell me a number so I cannot complete a numerical scale. In all my years of nursing I ha...

3. Hospice Triage Nurse

   nashva replied to nashva's topic in Hospice

   I can not thank you enough for your response. I find that I enjoy Hospice Nursing so much more than anything else I have ever done in the nursing field. I love it when people say "I don't know how you can do this job" I say this is the first job I...

4. Hospice Triage Nurse

   nashva replied to nashva's topic in Hospice

   thank you. just that information helps me greatly. i appreciate you taking the time to respond

5. Hospice Triage Nurse

   nashva posted a topic in Hospice

   I have been asked to sit on a board to discuss Triage Nursing. My questions are simple 1. What are the requirements to be a Triage Hospice Nurse? 2. What is the going pay rate for Triage Nurses?