JulieBean2U

JulieBean2U

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About JulieBean2U

RN for 10 years. Have done everything from dialysis to home hospice care to daycamp nurse for medically and emotionally fragile kids. Nursing isn't always easy but it is an all-encompassing profession that has fulfilled me beyond belief.

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  1. Questions about dying patients...

    As a hospice nurse, I can tell you that there usually is a "pulling back" days or hours before death. I believe in my heart that the immenently dying patient can hear and feel right up to the point...
  2. resperidol

    Lynn- I really feel for you. My son is now 13 and just came home in Novenber after spending 3 years living in a residential PMIC program for children. He was hearing voices, telling him to hurt...
  3. Nurses ROCK when it comes to gross stories!!!! I have two short but gross ones..... Had a thirtysomething man in for wound care and IV abo therapy. He was about 6 and 1/2 feet tall, approw 350 lbs,...
  4. Thinking of career change to hospice - HELP!

    Just a little addendum to my big speech above....I took a break from Hospice work in October, and have really missed it. Been doing Agency work and am currently doing a school-nurse kind of position...
  5. Thinking of career change to hospice - HELP!

    Part of the reason I went in to home hospice nursing was the realization that I yearned to spend more time with the dying patient when working in hospitals/nursing facilities. With a heavy patient...