kerrioutlaw

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1. Best environment to die in....hospice opinion needed.

   kerrioutlaw replied to coolpeach's topic in Hospice

   Hi Cool Peach I have been a Hospice nurse for 8 years and there definately good and bad deaths. Some depend strictly on the type of disease process and the nurse's ability to control symptoms. Others depend on the nurse's ability to care for the "W...

2. ALS info

   kerrioutlaw replied to saribeth's topic in Hospice

   Hi Yes this is true I have taken care of several ALS patients and although they made progressive declines most did not go into the actual dying phase. We had one just last week that was declining but definately not actively dying that suffered respi...

3. help with failure to thrive work sheet

   kerrioutlaw posted a topic in Hospice

   Hi All I am an educator for Hospice nurses and planning to re-educate our nurses on doing skin fold measures for failure to thrive, unfortuantely I can't seem to find Nomogram that will work. I have the worksheet for medicare but am missing the part...

4. Does anyone here have...

   kerrioutlaw replied to Carla25's topic in Holistic

   I am preparing a final paper on a case study about a patient that has suffered loss of a limb and now suffered a stroke. I am using Callista Roy's Adaptation Theory any suggestions on what to focus on for preparing a POC for this patient Thanks for...