Hal_Dol

Sleep? Once I get home I fill the cup with rum and coke.

I have been an LPN for about 7 years; but I got the compliment I treasure most when I was in LPN classes and working 3-11 as a CNA in a LTC facility on the weekend. A call bell rang from the room of two elderly ladies. As I entered the resident in ...

New Grads Getting Accepted In Hospice--For Becky8 et.al. I have worked in hospice for 4-5 years. When I first applied---after 3 years in a nursing homes---they said they wanted me to have had at least "some" work in home care settings. After about...

Hello All: Just had a case of Alzheimer's patient whose wife insisted he liked the TV on all night. Patient had been awake about 36 hours---mumbling/ babbling (no specific words)/lip smacking. I had turned the TV off to see if lowering the stimuli i...

WOW, long thread....guess it touched a sensitive nerve. I didn't wade through all the posts so maybe this point has already been made: (heard from an extremely competent charge nurse, after smiling at a patient BUT firmly telling him he couldn't have...

Kaylee3: I think I understand your question/dilemma; had the same problem when I first approached a hospice provider. My solution was to quit the nursing home job I had and go work for an agency. They frequently placed me in private homes, and occa...

Perhaps Not On Topic I have only been a nurse for 5 years; and do not work in a hospital but from what I've noticed/read everywhere (medical + public sites) hospitals are primarily interested in whether you have a valid license AND are still alive-an...

Hello Youngheart....: Hospice just seems to be "my niche" ; I was a total disaster in a hospital unit, even a skilled care nursing home. (At the nursing home had this "terrible" habit of spending a moment talking to the residents instead of doing my...

There IS another view of the world---and VITAS. Perhaps dfw has problems, all I can say is--as an LPN that has worked for VITAS in Florida for 3 years--the company has treated me very well. This includes tolerating me say "No thank you" to shifts ...

Though it is 2009 as I type this, I can't stand the thought of someone else reading this thread and believing everything they see! VITAS is the only hospice I have worked for so I cannot compare the service they provide to service provided by oth...

LPNs are certainly valued by VITAS, a national for profit hospice organization that operates in a number of states. Yes RNs are the “team leader” and make the visits to see how the patient is and what his/her needs may be. Then when the patient’s con...

If anybody cares: -Told my orientation group I loved my current job, but the company only hires LPNs for night shift; and at 4am my body says why don't you get a day job--> so here I am in second semester of the local community college. -Hx=Got...

Situational Depression, Think? My Story is sort of parallel. I was married then quit good government career/got divorced/went sailing in the Caribbean (oops took all SEVEN years of the 1/7 sabbatical )àmoved ashore-got-married-again=back in the s...

Hello All: I like VITAS very much. Have worked for them 2 years as an LPN that does crisis-care shifts of 13 hours each night. All the staff I've worked with are dedicated (no back-stabbing), compassionate, well-trained. Allan PS:I'm 62 y.o. so th...

My Personal Experience: Pt was bed bound with 2 LPM, across the room--20' away--Pt's husband was smoking a cigarette so to build trust I joined him. No problem; and he was using a 40' of tubing attached to his O2 generator set at 2.5 LPM. What I Was...

Hello All:As an LPN with only 3 years experience I wanted hospice because I was frustrated by only having time to pass meds and then say "Hello" as I backed out of the room to answer the next call bell at in a nursing home. Hospice has given me grea...