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1. Hospcie Certification

   STM replied to Glenda Jenkins's topic in Hospice

   I have the handbook, but I don't have the study guide. Please let me know if you find out how to get one! THank you

2. violence in home visits

   STM replied to STM's topic in General Nursing

   Thank you I have printed it all out. It's pretty good, thanks for your help.

3. violence in home visits

   STM replied to STM's topic in General Nursing

   this was a death visit for hospice...I felt I owed it to the patient and family to do the best I could, since I was already "ordered" to go alone.

4. violence in home visits

   STM replied to STM's topic in General Nursing

   he Sorry meant to answer the question...I would have driven on now that I am not in the situation...and suffered the consequences, but I was literally told in threatening tones to go alone. I would have been in the same place I am now, but probalby ...

5. violence in home visits

   STM replied to STM's topic in General Nursing

   Sorry I don't have a fax... I'm at home...and don't have access to fax, unless I send one, and then I go out and do it

6. violence in home visits

   STM replied to STM's topic in General Nursing

   If you don't mind, could you just tell me the name and address of your agency???? Just for the attorney. Don't have to give your name, we wouldn't contact. I just have to show it's legitimate. Thanks so much, this is exactly what I need!!!

7. hospice nurse interview.

   STM replied to nurseBSN's topic in Hospice

8. Do your dying patient's have company?

   STM replied to mchospicern's topic in Hospice

   Almost every patient I have ever had in hospice has experienced or said to experience, someone in their past being near by. How can so many people be that wrong???/ I don't doubt it myself and families seem to find comfort when they realize it may ...

9. Is Hospice a higher calling?

   STM replied to rosemadder's topic in Hospice

   I don't know who the call came from, or where...but I do know that when I was checking into Hospice nursing....I felt something tugging at me, maybe my soul, maybe early senility. I followed, and never regretted it. That tugging, pulling, also pull...

10. Great books you'd recommend

    STM replied to Mandee's topic in Hospice

    I agree, Final Gifts is the most awesome I've read so far. Tuesdays with Maury is excellent also...For references...I have found that a book for ALS, BY David Oliver...Palliative care in MND, has so much about palliative care in general that I love ...

11. Should I be mad at Hospice? My mother...

    STM replied to Roland's topic in Hospice

    We sometimes used ABHR suppositories if nothing else seemed to help for restlessness, nausea, and have lots of success.. acombination of Haldol, Benadryl, Reglan, and Ativan, it also comes in creams now. The combination seemed to work better than an...

12. Query re Palliative Medication

    STM replied to niamh's topic in Hospice

    I haven't seen a syringe driver in the US! We use Cadds, Abbott Aim's, Saberteck. I am back from my second trip to the UK to work in the St. Christopher's Hospice and with Dame Cicely Saunders. They have a super team, I don't recognize the names o...

13. violence in home visits

    STM replied to STM's topic in General Nursing

    I understand and thank you. I begged for help, literally. I don't know how I even drove my car I was so scared, then to have the exe. dir. YELLING at me on my cell phone, I knew if I didn't go in, it would be instant abandonment. Instant terminati...

14. Siderails in LTC

    STM replied to jones58's topic in Safety

    At our SNF we have hall monitors on occasion who do nothing but walk the halls, checking rooms and brakes and rails, and patient safety. Which still isn't enough sometimes. We also have bed alarms, w/c alarms, low beds, half rails, and if the super...

15. violence in home visits

    STM replied to STM's topic in General Nursing

    WHOA.... I initially phoned the administrative call person, which was the executive director, and told her prior to the visit, that I had been forewarned and insisted on some backup...I asked 3 times.....stopping on the way as she directed me to go ...