pmabraham

pmabraham BSN, RN

Hospice, Palliative Care

Follower of Jesus • BSN, RN serving others as a Hospice RN Case Manager • Lifelong Learner

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  1. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Minimizing? Misinformation? Oh my, what a malarky. I've taken care as many of 40 sickly, geriatric, COVID-19 positive patients per shift when I worked in long-term care from April 2020 to November...

  2. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Aysympomatic spread has not been

  3. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    I am educated, thank you. And I'm one of the RN's (along with doctors I know and other nurses I know) refusing these experimental vaccines. We don't know the long-term impact, and will not for some...

  4. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    A lie is a lie is a lie. Trying to justify the lie just makes the liar a worse

  5. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    A liar who uses "the ends justifies the means" logic has no

  6. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    https://gizmodo.com/Dr-fauci-made-the-coronavirus-pandemic-worse-by-lying-1844050358

  7. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Oh, you mean the same lying and corrupt without integrity Dr. Fauci who lied to the American public for several months at the start of the Pandemic telling people NOT to wear masks? And then when...

  8. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    It’s interesting to see fellow nurses bullying other nurses either based on where they live or their perception on their education level. It’s sad actually. I personally know doctors who are not...

  9. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Curious1997, like the rest of us, you are entitled to your opinion. Thankfully the U.S. Surgeon General is on public record stating NONE of these vaccines should be mandated by anyone. According to...

  10. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

  11. Getting Flack For Not Getting Covid Vaccine

    pmabraham replied to EDnurseAmen's topic in Disaster Preparation

    Thankfully the companies for whom I work are honoring the U.S. Surgeon General's statement that NO one should be mandating the COVID-19 vaccines. One of our coworkers was rushed to the ER via...

  12. Hospice - Focusing on the word, "Comfort" vs. "Pain"

    pmabraham posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

    According to the National Institute on Aging, “Comfort care is an essential part of medical care at the end of life” (National Institute on Aging [NIA], 2017, para. 1). When we talk about comfort,...

  13. Rapid response

    pmabraham replied to Calm and collected's topic in General Nursing

    I share this as a current hospice RN case manager. To clarify, a rapid response is not the same as calling a code. And since it can fall into the same lines as respiratory distress if someone is...

  14. Criteria for GIP

    pmabraham replied to Meliss214's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    GIP requires the terminal patient to have uncontrolled symptoms where the hospital setting is the only place that can help control symptoms. Furthermore, GIP requires that the goal is to control the...

  15. Just Say “NO” to Nurse Staffing Laws

    pmabraham replied to SafetyNurse1968's topic in General Nursing

    IF you want more and more nurses running away from hospital and LTC nursing, keep going against mandated safe staffing ratios. There's textbook, and there's real life. Real-life unsafe staffing...

  16. On-call hospice nurse

    pmabraham replied to lwheatley's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Personally, I don't think I would ever take a salary position as a hospice nurse. There's too much room for being abused. It's not fair, but if you took the position, it's not illegal. I worked in...

  17. A Letter to my Hospice Patient

    pmabraham replied to Meagan's topic in General Nursing

    As a fellow hospice nurse who also came from a cardiac unit, I can appreciate the learning curve from chasing abnormals to focusing on the quality of life for what the patient determines is quality....

  18. Quotas for visits, mandatory overtime?

    pmabraham replied to Hospice RNCM's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thankfully the company for whom I work pays their visiting staff hourly vs. salary. Nurses have a form of a quota system and that is 20 points per week where a routine and recert visit is 1 point, an...

  19. Understanding the Risk of Firearms: Suicide vs. Homicide

    pmabraham replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    The evidence is in the Bill of Rights itself. I'm glad you own a gun and you are teaching your son good information about guns. Yet, keep in mind the 2nd amendment wasn't put into place for hunting...

  20. Understanding the Risk of Firearms: Suicide vs. Homicide

    pmabraham replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

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  21. Understanding the Risk of Firearms: Suicide vs. Homicide

    pmabraham replied to Melissa Mills's topic in General Nursing

    The 2nd Amendment was written after liberating our nation from tyrants which is the exact intent of the amendment. So that legal citizens who are willing to take up (buy) arms and ammunition and keep...

  22. Ethical Dilemma: Is it ever ok to mislead a patient?

    pmabraham replied to RNjuice's topic in General Nursing

    Yet without ethics, there lacks compassion and humanity. Now, since you've previously jumped to assumptions vs. assessing, let me be clear I'm not accusing anyone of anything. I'm sharing ethics...

  23. Ethical Dilemma: Is it ever ok to mislead a patient?

    pmabraham replied to RNjuice's topic in General Nursing

    Wuzzie, you are assuming in several areas. I was not trying to school anyone. Since you are a seasoned nurse, may I suggest start assessing more than assuming? ? I work in hospice, so I know what...

  24. Ethical Dilemma: Is it ever ok to mislead a patient?

    pmabraham replied to RNjuice's topic in General Nursing

    As I shared, check with the POA... and unless the POA is legally removed as the POA, they are the POA. You are free to read into things, so if you are reading into the responses with a certain tone,...

  25. Ethical Dilemma: Is it ever ok to mislead a patient?

    pmabraham replied to RNjuice's topic in General Nursing

    In my comments, I'm referring to the patient's bill of rights which includes the ability to refuse medications and treatments. When it comes to dementia patients, please lookup validation therapy...