When I worked for a hospice, the crisis care team were the nurses that provided care to patients when their deaths were imminent. This was 24 hr care, divided into 12hr shifts for each nurse. So the...
@darlene... i can't pm u an answer, so i will leave one here. at the time i applied it was easy to get in... no wait list. but i'm not sure if that's the case
i have tried it. zegerid is the same as prilosec... just buffered a different way. it's buffered with 1100mg of sodium bicarbonate. i like it so far... i feel like it works better than prilosec or...
Having worked for hospice before, I know that this is true. Fever is a natural part of the dying process. If the fever does not seem to be bothering the patient, then it is unecessary to give the...
Yeah. we had a pt like that on service with us once. we discharged him to an infusion clinic for portacath management. he was already administering his own tpn, i think it was. you guys should...
what are you guys seeing him for? what skill are you performing at your visits? not only does this man need to be homebound, he also has to have a skilled need for services........ and he must have...
What you was told is absolutely not true. I am a home health nurse. If you write your frequency for 1W4 or whatever that just means you will see the pt one time a week for 4 weeks, not every 7 days,...
It sounds like hospice might be a good fit for you. What you can do is contact a hospice agency and ask them questions to learn more about hospice and it's
I graduated from this program (LVN-RN) in jan 2007. I would honestly have to say that if you are looking for a quality education, this is not the school to go to. However, if you are simply looking to...
kicnic replied to spiritbeing8992's topic in Geriatric, LTC
Very common. Actually at nursing homes here San Diego it is common to have more than that. The last place I worked at I had 38 patients to pass meds to, chart on, do treatments, e.t.c. On top of that...
I think I know what she is talking about. If you have been a CNA for 5 years or more in California you can take a couple of classes and become a LVN. I think this is a crazy