prostreetrig

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1. How Do I Know If I Can Handle Hospice?

   prostreetrig replied to tencat's topic in Hospice

   Hello there. I have been a Hospice nurse going over a year now. The day I dropped off my application I was questioning what I was doing. The problem is Hospice brings about terrifying emotions. Dead people, cancer, dying, pain, etc. Hospice is so far...

2. Working while in LPN school full time?? who did it.

   prostreetrig replied to flower2007's topic in LPN/LVN Students

   Hello there. Yes, I did work full time while in school. Was it a wise decision? No. The only thing I can tell you is to endulge yourself in the reading. Work is work and school is school. Just keep in the back of your mind the end result. Yes you wil...

3. How did you know the LPN/LVN route was for you???

   prostreetrig replied to couldntbhappier's topic in LPN/LVN

   Hi there. I will start by saying it's in the genes. My mother was an OB nurse in the navy, aunt was a nurse at the prison, my twin brother and I are nurses, my other aunt and her daughter are nurses. So, why did I become a nurse? I worked eight years...

4. Med error???????

   prostreetrig posted a topic in General Nursing

   Ok, I am an LPN with Hospice. THe other day I went to do an assessment on one of our PT's. She was constipated from Morphine and had been four days or so without a BM. PT asked me if I could give her an enema. Now, She had positive BS, no N/V, etc. I...

5. Getting my own cases now.

   prostreetrig replied to wonderbee's topic in Hospice

   Hello there. I can offer some advice but I don't know your regs. For one, being a case manager that PT's entire chart is your responsibility. That means when something is missing, it's your butt. So cover that butt tightly. There are very strict regs...

6. IV therapy

   prostreetrig replied to jacjon's topic in Hospice

   In my agency we do not do IV's. It's one of our regular teaching we try to do. I had a PCG concerend that her husband was dehydrated, mind you he was actively dying. I informed her that a dying body does not need fluids or food to function. She was s...

7. Palliative sedation position paper

   prostreetrig replied to IDidIt2007's topic in Hospice

   Hello there. I am a nurse with Hospice and we just got done doing terminal sedation on one of our patients. I will start by saying this gentleman had lung ca with bone mets. He was in excruciating pain, all day, every day. We had him on Roxy 4ml Q2H,...

8. Is everyone afraid to give Morphine?

   prostreetrig posted a topic in Oncology

   Hi there. I am employed with Hospice in my area and one thing I have noticed is as soon as we introduce MSIR or Roxanol families flip! They all do the reading and figure that Morphine will stop someones respirations. I have done so much teaching rega...

9. All of these sad nursing encounters, heres a happy one!!

   prostreetrig posted a topic in General Nursing

   Good morning out there. My name is James and I am an RN student. I work at Hospice of the North Country and have to say it is the best place I have ever worked. First of all, I have tried to find my niche in the hospital, nursing home, rehab center n...