gsu8696

gsu8696 has 19 years experience and specializes in Hospice. Also home health and oncology..

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1. Patches: My Non-Compliance Patient

   gsu8696 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Pain management is a very tedious part of the hospice nurses' lives. It takes a lot of time to titrate medications, figure out which adjuvant meds will work best for each patient and provided continual assessments for each patient to ensure you're ah...

2. The Case of the Missing Spoon

   gsu8696 posted a topic in General Nursing

   This particular evening started off like most others, busy and unpredictable. As charge nurse for the unit on that shift I never knew what to expect, but learned to take whatever surfaced in stride and tried to remember that 11 pm (or whatever time I...

3. Nursing Home Follies

   gsu8696 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Making rounds one weekend, I walked into check on a patient who was sitting in her wheelchair laughing hysterically. Her roommate was sitting in the middle of her bed with her legs tucked up under chin rocking back and forth. Since I had been working...

4. Death Denying Acts

   gsu8696 posted a topic in General Nursing

   So when my patient died, I felt prepared. I felt sad. She was an elderly woman. But she was somebody's mom, somebody's daughter, somebody's wife. She had a long life, but I wondered what it was like, Had she been happy? Where was she from? What were ...

5. Pediatric Hospice Humor

   gsu8696 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I had been the manager of our hospice inpatient unit for a couple of years. I had a fantastic nursing staff! I absolutely loved everything about that job with the exception of one thing; okay, maybe two, but the primary exception would have to be adm...

6. Communication Chaos!

   gsu8696 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I had been assured by my colleagues who had recruited me to the unit as well as the head nurse on our unit that the fact that I had no oncology experience and that I was not chemotherapy certified were only minor issues...unless I had the unfortunate...

7. Patriots' Act! How Could I Turn Down Her Request Now?

   gsu8696 posted a topic in General Nursing

   Most of the patients on our floor were oncology patients either there to receive inpatient chemotherapy or continuing their ongoing battle with the dreaded disease. The other major portion of our census was our general post-op patients...the appys, t...

8. Will you expereinced help Me!?!

   gsu8696 replied to Renee4christ's topic in CNS

   Renee, You have plenty of time to decide what trek you want to take. Give yourself a break...focus on getting your BSN. Once you've done that, you'll figure out what to do next. I followed the CNS path and got mine in Rural and Community Health...it ...

9. Hospice Nurses The Good the Bad and the Ugly

   gsu8696 replied to hissteps4u's topic in General Nursing

   I'm currently a hospice nurse. I graduated nursing school May 2007. I've been a hospice RN since June. I LOVE my job!! I can't tell you how many times I've heard "You're too young to be a nurse," or "I can't believe you're doing hospice nursing, you'...