kyhospicenurse replied to FireStarterRN's topic in General Nursing
I agree with you as far as the perception of the public in general but talk to someone who has had a family member in hospice or someone who has been discharged from Hospice for improving and no...
I'm a little leery of adult FTT. I think it is used way too much just to get a person in hospice when in fact there are much better substantiated diagnosis that fit the pt. We had a little guy in our...
I have gone to quite a few visitations of my patients. Once, 2 different patients in the same evening and in different states, though they were only about 30 minutes of each other. I give all my...
Losing a parent is hard on us all. After the loss of my father, I changed my specialty from cardiac to hospice care. My father was diagnosed with lung cancer and told he would live 3 months or so. As...
For the first time in my career I can honestly say I LOVE MY JOB!!! After working in the hospital for many years, tired of the hospital politics, and becoming totally burned out, I took some time off....