MagnoliaBlossom

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1. Clamped Chest Tubes

   MagnoliaBlossom replied to tplazio's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Pleurx is the brand name for the system we use. I tried to attach the link but my ipad is not cooperating. Sorry. But if you google it you shouldnt have trouble finding it. I thought there was an...

2. Clamped Chest Tubes

   MagnoliaBlossom replied to tplazio's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   We see this fairly often and use the pleurovac system. If memory serves me right, that is actually the trade name. They have a cd for the family and I think the video is also online. The tube is...

3. First week with patient, family driving me batty!

   MagnoliaBlossom replied to MsBlissful's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I have just had a patient die last week whose family did this to us. Although he was at home. After the second week, my LPN and I had answered the same questions over and over and over - well, you...

4. Aortic valve replacement, post-op course

   MagnoliaBlossom replied to MagnoliaBlossom's topic in Cardiac

   As a hospice nurse, I am "poop obsessed" as well. Young people don't ever quite understand the bowel function thing, but that's okay, Mother Nature has a way of reminding us how important every...

5. Aortic valve replacement, post-op course

   MagnoliaBlossom replied to MagnoliaBlossom's topic in Cardiac

   Ya'll are so funny! I just about spewed my coffee on the monitor picturing him getting an enema. I worked my way through nursing school as an OB tech, so HHH enemas are my specialty Not the same...

6. Aortic valve replacement, post-op course

   MagnoliaBlossom replied to MagnoliaBlossom's topic in Cardiac

   Emily, you are such a sweetheart. Yes, I think depression will be a definate possibility with him. The men in his family (military) are wonderful at meeting everyone's needs around them - except...

7. Aortic valve replacement, post-op course

   MagnoliaBlossom replied to MagnoliaBlossom's topic in Cardiac

   Thank you so much for your extensive refresher course! I began life as a surgical nurse, but then went to administration then back to a simpler life in community health nursing and hospice. We deal a...

8. Questions about hospice

   MagnoliaBlossom replied to Genista's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I am just guessing here, but a re-visit nurse may be their term for field nurse. They may have a nurse who specifically does admits or continuing care. Just my

9. Aortic valve replacement, post-op course

   MagnoliaBlossom posted a topic in Cardiac

   My 39 y.o. step-son has just been diagnosed with an ascending aortic aneurysm and bicuspid aortic valve. He is scheduled for surgical repair of both next week. The valve replacement will be...

10. National Association of Free Clinics

    MagnoliaBlossom replied to hotflashion's topic in General Nursing

    I have been working (volunteering) at a free clinic in our area for almost three years now. Ours is for the working poor. Pts. must be working (or have worked within the last three months), make less...