Nuna

If you don't know the importance of a reasonable workload, then you must not have a life.

Hello all! I am considering a switch to hospice nursing. I've worked for several years in community-based case management (verbal assesment; no "hands-on") and have had three years of medical surgical hospital nursing in the past. I love making home visits and am looking to work in a more spiritually-oriented area of nursing. Could anyone recommend what type questions I should ask a prospective employer to help me decide if 1) the workload is reasonable, and 2) they/I would be a good fit? Also, for any nurses in Georgia, can you tell me what the typical pay rate is for a full-time Hospice nurse? Thanks advance for any advice ya'll can offer!

Any nurses out there using colon hydrotherapy (i.e. administering colonics) as a part of their nursing practice? If so, what type of practice do you have? Can anyone who knows colon hydrotherapy tell me the difference in cleansing the colon using hydrotherapy and cleansing the colon using a standard "pre-colonoscopy" cleansing protocol? Thanks in advance for your response.

what can be done to insure my friend's maximum fitness in preparation for surgery and rehab, given the constraints/injuries/situation described below? he will continue to be hospitalized/institutionalized while he is waiting for knee surgery for traumatic knee dislocation with multiple knee ligament injuries sustained in a car accident. the knees are no longer dislocated, but all ligaments are ruptured except the lateral collateral on each knee. docs are planning to use cadaver grafts to reconstruct the ligaments, the time frame is still uncertain. my friend also has a broken fibula in each leg, broken bones in right hand/wrist, and is recovering from plastic surgery to right forearm. so far he has been in bed for three weeks, out only twice, once for mri and once to wheelchair. if the docs wait four to six more weeks to do the first surgery (kness will be done separately), as they may, my friend will be institutionalized all that time, being unable to self transfer. my friend is 51 years old and was in good health and fitness, being a greenhouse worker prior to the car accident. any advice will be much appreciated.