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Oh and one last little comment, how about the clinical staff that work with you that doesn't really see the benefit of getting those all important measurements for you because it doesn't have anything to do with her paperwork???? Arrrggghhhh:banghead:

Andre, You made my day, my week and my month with your post and your banging heads!!!! I loved it!!! We rolled our new paperwork out on the 30th of November; my boss announced at 9 am on the 1st of December that I had to have all 21 of my patients completely transitioned over by the next day's IDT meeting. This meant med sheets, IDT care plan grid and all new care plans. I thought that one of us had lost our minds and soon realized that it must have been me! Slowly but surely, I am getting it. Can't stand the new stuff - haven't shaken the lost in the headlights deer look and wonder if my patients notice that I have been missing in action for days. Thanks for your humor.

I am just coming back to this forum after a long break; I've been doing hospice nursing for two years and loving the field of palliative nursing for longer than that. I have to say that I completely agree with the above posts; the passing of each and every patient is so special, so sacred and so incredible that you can't properly articulate with the rest of the world in order to give it's proper honor. Some times I am so overcome with grief that I can't even speak about the death so I write about them; I eventually will have enough that I will publish a book. While I've been in graduate school, a fellow student in Florida has asked if I would co-author with him. I'm actually considering it. What a privilege and honor we have each day as we serve this population of patient and family; there are days when I want to shriek with frustration and pull my hair out but most of the time, I wouldn't trade it for anything. Thanks for such a great thread - I too understand the need to talk but also to keep private.