kat7464

How on earth did this land on a nursing site? Is All Nurses going political? Okay, then you will have my full opinion. Newsome is an idiot....the latest of many generations of democratic morons that have run the state of California, which I was born into and left at age 58. Those idiots, including the Sierra Club, refused to properly manage the forests....add to that the tax dollars put into the general fund that were used to pay for illegal aliens....forget about the needs of Californians.....Climate Change? That was brought into public light 20 plus years ago. Why didn't California plan for it then? Now they blame all the fires on that. This is total BS. It is a hypocritical, tyrranical state run by idiots.

Where does the rationing of care end? Will you ration the nursing care of my hospice patient? How is one life valued above another and thus receives more care? No human being has the right to determine human value or privilege - only God can do that. A pre-born baby who is unable to vocalize their needs/wants has just as much rights as my late stage demented patient who cannot vocalize his/her needs/wishes either. Do not play God....you won't win.

Nerdy girl here. Plenty respond...and we make pretty darned good nurses.

A co-worker was at the bedside of an actively dying patient. Not unusual, this patient had copious secretions. She got an order for Lasix to give thru the patient's G-tube. His hospice Dx was Gastric CA. She completely bypassed hycosamine, scopalamine, glycopyrolate. In my 7 years of hospice work I have never had a doc order Lasix for excessive secretions. I have not had a chance to speak with this nurse about her decision to pursue this order. It just got me thinking....is lasix ever appropriate at EOL for patients that are not in heart failure but nevertheless have tons of secretions? I would love to hear thoughts, pathophys, experience, anything. I am completely acustomed to thinking that atopine, scop, and levsin are the only solutions. Thoughts, please.

Are you in this position for your patients or your car? Because your car will definitely take a beating. They are replaceable (at a price, of course). But you have a heart for hospice and know the lives of your patients and what they are struggling with is worth the toll on your car. Otherwise, you probaby would not have taken the job. I am thankful for my Subaru...so thankful, but she is feeling the miles.

Left California after spending all of my life there. Graduated 2010 as a RN and made good money, but thanks, Jerry Brown (and all other democrats), as your policies and hidden fees...AKA TAXES, ate up my salary. The weather and landscape is good but it ain't that great. Enjoy quality of life where you are. My husband and I relocated to the Houston area. As a RN I make a fraction of what I made in California but the benefits here are worth it. I do not miss the state I was born and raised in.

Abortion is the murder of an innocent human being, plain and simple. You can dance around it all you want and talk about women's rights, but where is the right of the human she is carrying? I am sure plenty will hate me for being pro-life, but the fact is God created humans in His image...we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Every human being has the right to life.

I work in a large inpatient hospice facility and we are crazy busy and understaffed. I am running almost my entire 13-hours shift. Gotta tell you, I do love it though. By the end of my 3-day stretch I am exhausted. I have worked as a CM seeing hospice patients in the field but it was Little House on the Prairie nursing. While I love 1:1 with the patient, there was little about it that was challenging. Unless, of course, you count the families. There was plenty of drama and challenge in that arena.

I care. Just because you are older (and I am, too) does not give you license to say or do whatever you think you are entitled too. You still represent an honored profession. You are not entitled to trash it. Yes, our jobs are hard...that is no excuse for foul language.

By who...the staff or the patients? You can't really control the patients, but personally, I hate co-workers' foul mouths. Come on...take the high road and be professional. Yeah, we get that circumstances may stink but be professional. Some of your co-workers (and your patients) are counting on you.

Totally selfish family, unable or unwilling to see the patient's perspective, which (hopefully) was expressed prior to this situation. Have been a hospice nurse for years and am always amazed at how reluctant families are to let go when all evidence (and the patient mind you) say otherwise. I understand their pain but death is a natural event, much like childbirth. Amazing how we fight it, refusing to hear any reasoning but our own. Sad...so sad.

You either love nursing or you don't. Loving it doesn't make it easy. But if you are not called to it please leave. Very difficult decision to make for many nurses. Why did you become a nurse in the first place? If it was for convenience, money, or status, forget it. You have to love your patient (and their families) and be willing to show up, serve their needs, and forget about yourself (to a large extent). If you can't do this move on. Blessings....

Best advice I was ever given came in nursing school - always ask yourself, "Does this make sense?" before doing anything to the patient. This made no sense on many levels and the nurse should have stopped in her tracks before administering that drug.

Be a professional. Treat the physician the way you want to be treated. Feeling put out? Not understood? I so get those feelings... But taylor your (loving) speech in such a way as to be a blessing and not a curse. The goal is your patient....not your ego. Whether the doc gets it or not...remember who you serve...your patient!

Where to start? I get so sick of Code Browns....my sense of smell has been burned away thanks to smelling crap all of the time. Phlegm? So gross, but we deal with it. Foul urine? Always....families (let alone patients) are completely clueless about the junk we deal with daily. I am sick of it! My love for quality patient care keeps me going; again no one gets it except other healthcare professionals. I do not seek approbation but I am tired of the knife in my back because of attitudes of entitlement, HCAHPs servitude, etc. I have realized that I am just a maid with a med cart.