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I am a hospice nurse. I know you sent this question earlier this year but I am new to this group. If you have any questions, I would be glad to answer you. [email protected] Dianna

I am an RN in home health hospice nursing. It was a gradual progression for nurses aide to LPN to RN, staffing and nursing home work, to home health and now onto hospice home health. I love it. I truly feel I walk away from every patient with more than I could possibly give them. And I work with a great bunch of nurses who really care about our patients and each other. How about anyone else?

I don't understand how a person can be a nurse, see life and death as much as we do and NOT believe in God. Our bodies are miracles....they could never "just happen". I am a hospice nurse and I see death on a daily basis. I will tell you who dies the easiest and most peaceful...the Christians. They have a hope of life beyond and know that though they do not want to leave behind their loved ones, they have a Lord that is waiting to give them wondrous things that their minds could not even imagine. The non-Christians usually die with more pain, angry and have a hard time reconciling the fact that they are dying. I have sat by the bedside of so many people as life as slipped from them. It in itself is a mysterious but wondrous thing to see life from beginning to end. I have sat at the bedside of my father and my mother, who were christians, and knew the love they had for each other. My mother told my father "i will be waiting for you" and my father told her "I will mourn for you but envy that you are there before me". Eternity is a long time....think before you can no longer make a decision about it.