As a family nurse practitioner, I certify patients for medical cannabis. Those who see it as evil are not educated about it. It has greatly helped hundreds of my patients. Studies also show that THC may attack cancer cells. However, they are not comp...
I put in about 3 hours driving time today and saw 6 patients. There was no time to stop for coffee and forget even 10 minutes for lunch. Had I stopped I would never have been done on time.However,when I mention that I put 100 miles a day on my car, m...
I cannot believe I found this one particular post! I resigned and gave a one month notice. The management THINKS I am going to another hospice, but they do not know for sure. They did not allow me to see my patients either and asked me to leave. One ...
Are you guys serious? Our nursing home nurses are expected to see only 4 patients a day in a nursing home. I was told by someone at work that the national standard is 4 nursing home patients in one day. I have fellow colleagues in hospice nursing in ...
Em1995 replied to captain morgan's topic in Hospice
I noticed you mentioned "legal", Carolyn. I chuckled. One of my 20 year old patients with stomach cancer experienced intractable nausea and vomiting. I had tried everything under the sun from diet change to meds: Zofran, compazine ativan...you name i...
Em1995 replied to captain morgan's topic in Hospice
The word "addicted" doesn't ever enter into my vocabulary or thought process. Pain is pain and whatever the patient says it is. Our mission is to alleviate that pain.
I applaud him or her, too...but, why complicate matters and continue futile interventions (lopressor). With good family support, (I assume the hospice admitting nurse was at the hospital to assure support to transfer the pt home), usually the family ...
I agree with Leslie on this. But, have some comments. Lopressor will DECREASE blood pressure, if this patient is actively dying, why continue it? I question a medical director who would approve of the patient going home with IV Lopressor. And, th...
Em1995 replied to RNandlovingit's topic in Hospice
SweetSue...you cannot recertify a patient if they are not showing a decline. Do you find anything that indicates a decline? Any weight loss? Increased sleeping? Increased infections? UTI's? Decline in mobility? Increased confusion? Do any of the co-m...
I have some strong feelings about the use of oximeters in hospice. As a long-time ER nurse, and now a full-time hospice nurse, I have often seen these measurements to be inaccurate and over-used(and, I saw those inaccuracies many times in the ER). Ox...
Ktw...What I meant to say was this: if another nurse, social worker, volunteer, whomever...doesn't discuss his or her ideas with their co-worker, then no, they are not being a team player. This is all about communicating WITH each other. It doesn't m...
Just wondering if anyone knows the answer. Do your full-time home care nurses carry about 12 patients? And, what about facility nurses? To me, it seems like they can handle more as in facilities the facility nurse carries out the work and the hospice...