KatrinkaRN

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1. Ketamine

   KatrinkaRN replied to Uptoherern's topic in Emergency

   Help!! I'm a new ER nurse..used to be a hospice nurse...the last thing I want to do is to have to revert back to hospice nursing practice while in the ER. The ER I work in routinely uses Ketamine for...

2. End-Stage O2 Research

   KatrinkaRN replied to MarcusKspn's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I've been working in hospice for 3 years now...I've learned to not use pulse ox's...instead I go by how my patient presents...if oxygen makes him comfortable by all means use it...but if the patient...

3. Question regarding nursing care...

   KatrinkaRN replied to KatrinkaRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Sometimes scopolamine doesn't work on tracheal congestion. For the most part, suctioning is only done when it's occluding the

4. Question regarding nursing care...

   KatrinkaRN replied to KatrinkaRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   The patients that I was referring to were in the active phase of dying, comatose. So they felt the justification was that death was iminient so they were so point in suctioning using sterile...

5. Question regarding nursing care...

   KatrinkaRN posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I have a question about standard nursing care on an inpatient hospice unit. I used to work on an inpatient hospice unit connected to the hospital. We often would get patients with...

6. Too young for Hospice?

   KatrinkaRN replied to MelRN13's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I agree wholeheartedly with what everyone has said. I've been in hospice for three years...and I believe it is a calling. All the nurses that I've worked with truly want to be doing this kind of...

7. ICU nursing vs Floor nursing

   KatrinkaRN replied to nurs4kids's topic in General Nursing

   I tried both floor nursing and icu nursing...I now work in hospice and I think that's where I'll stay. In hospice, you're no longer experiencing the pressure of trying to keep someone alive. My hats...