cinRN95

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1. Help with a patient who wants to end her life

   cinRN95 replied to oxyjen's topic in General Nursing

   Some surgeons really don't like DNR's. I have known several who would not operate on someone who had a do not resuscitate order in place unless they rescinded it prior to surgery. I know in some states it is a coroner's case if a patient dies in the ...

2. Pubic hair

   cinRN95 replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

   After mulling this over, I think I might get some of that surgical hair remover they use for GYN OR and use that. I dont think I would shave someone because I can't even shave myself without nicking. But nurses do this for patients pre-op all the tim...

3. Pubic hair

   cinRN95 replied to nurseJLoo's topic in General Nursing

   I definitely would not do this for a patient. However, there are salons that will send someone to a home or a nursing facility to do waxing. You may want to suggest to her family that they look into this for her.

4. I need some answers please!

   cinRN95 replied to snowflake58's topic in General Nursing

   As I see it, there are two separate issues here. One is that if she didn't have standing orders for the ABG and chest x-ray, then she practiced outside of the scope of her license. This will get her in trouble with a state board but probably only a s...

5. Help with a patient who wants to end her life

   cinRN95 replied to oxyjen's topic in General Nursing

   I have talked to the doctor and he said he believed my father-in-law had choked on food as my mother-in-law told him on the phone that he had just finished his lunch when he collapsed. The doctor was heartsick that he had not honored my father-in-law...

6. Help with a patient who wants to end her life

   cinRN95 replied to oxyjen's topic in General Nursing

   I agree. I have personally been involved with this with my father-in-law very recently. He had Asbestosis and End Stage Heart Disease. Doctors had told him for over a year that there was not much else they could do to improve his condition and he was...

7. Amazed with some people's comments.

   cinRN95 replied to Foxfour's topic in General Nursing

   I was driving to a patient's home and saw an SUV hit a man on a bicycle. I pulled over, called an ambulance and went to help the man. As I was pulling over, I watched the SUV pull into the Country Club parking lot a block down the street. The policem...

8. Help with a patient who wants to end her life

   cinRN95 replied to oxyjen's topic in General Nursing

   I whole heartedly agree with the above post. These decisions are not made lightly by patients. Especially patients with long standing terminal illness. They generally are well aware that the treatment is not working long before their doctors and/or n...

9. Help with a patient who wants to end her life

   cinRN95 replied to oxyjen's topic in General Nursing

   As a hospice nurse for 11 years, let me say that I feel very sad for everyone involved here. ALS is a horrible disease and families are put into positions to make very tough decisions with very young family members. It is a rock and a hard place to p...