mgerrity

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1. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

   mgerrity replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

   I am so happy to see your response. I am not only a nurse but a chronic pain patient. Let me tell you, it is very difficult to get people to truly understand what we experience on a daily basis. I have had chronic excrutiating lower back pain for 14 ...

2. MORPHINE and Dying Patients

   mgerrity replied to constantlylearning's topic in General Nursing

   After seeing both sides of this issue, (my mom was a brain cancer patient and we cared for her in our home until she passed away and with hospice's help in pain mgmt), I would never worry about giving too much morphine or hastening her death. I just ...