laynicrn

laynicrn has 6 years experience.

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1. Agitated terminal agitation or a hospice nurse's worst nightmare

   laynicrn replied to laynicrn's topic in Hospice

   Yes, the patient has significant death issues with spiritual/emotional issues that she refuses to even consider. Won't go into specifics, but there was a major event approx 40 years ago that she refuses to talk about, refuses to even identify. As s...

2. Agitated terminal agitation or a hospice nurse's worst nightmare

   laynicrn posted a topic in Hospice

   Yes, I meant for the title to read that way. Give a patient 10 mg versed, 15 mg haldol, 4 mg dilaudid, 4 mg ativan in two hours and they are still not only awake, but throwing things, hitting, screaming, trying to get up and walk around, pulling ha...

3. National average for pt caseload

   laynicrn replied to Em1995's topic in Hospice

   I have both home and facility patients. Last Monday I had 14 patients, as of today I have 11. I have two facilities with 3 patients in one and two patients in another, not even half my case load. It really depends on the facility and the DON and at...