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Absolutely numbed and heartbroken. A tremendous and unfathomable loss. My most sincere condolences to all their family… and to all who knew and loved them.

Absolutely horrified and heartbroken to wake up to this news this morning. I am still reeling with shock. I have been a member of AN for many, many years. (2002) Allnurses was a godsend when I first began my nursing studies. I was completely new to c...

Having been a dialysis nurse several years ago, and now a HH nurse with patients who also are on dialysis, I have spent hours online finding helpful educational materials to send out to the home.. especially for those patients new to dialysis. I wil...

Lovely. In the end, more powerful than medicine, more meaningful than "proper" technique. And universal.. isn't that what we ALL want? Just be good to me. CARE.. and you'll do everything perfectly.

Ouch !!! Agree with all the above advice. And do be careful. Document EVERYTHING and make copies. Get this resolved ASAP. NO ONE should have to put up with this nonsense. EVER. What a dirtball.

I work in Home Health. No longer a road warrior, have been in charge of providing patient education materials for our road nurses for the past year. I spend a LOT of time online searching for the best available patient education handouts to send out ...

Thanx, Trauma ! I'll add more in time as I come across them. For patients with computer savvy, I also give them links to helpful websites. These patients unfortunately don't get much initial information from their nephrologist, and while we had hando...

here's another article that might be helpful: Understanding How Fluid Gains Affect Dialysis :)

here's a great link I like to use to print off renal diet/fluids for our HH patients who are on dialysis: Eat Right to Feel Right on Hemodialysis - National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse Our patients have really enjoyed this...

Indeed !!! Thank you !!!

Love this !!! THANK YOU !!! Great resource for those in Home Health as well! :)

As always !

Well, actually, I'm so thrilled to have power back on, I'm not sleepy now.. haha ! So I'll touch on this a bit, and we can continue more over the next couple days... My first and only grandson was dx'd with HFA (high functioning autism) in Feb. on ...

OK.. promised to get with you today, but got home from work yesterday and we had a small tornado tear through our area and lost power at 5 pm yesterday and only now just came back on. Crazy weather these days !!!! Will have plenty of time to get on...

Hi here from VA as well ! At t work right now but will be happy to discuss things with you this evening after work and/or over the weekend :)

Here's a really good link for some WONDERFUL print friendly patient tutorials ! https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html The ones that have the X-Plain tutorials are really, really good. You'll have to click on the "text summary" tab at...

I have found some truly AWSOME websites which provide great teaching materials to download, PDF or regular web version, and most of these also include spanish translations. National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging, Uptodate.com, Me...

Kudos to all with these helpful links and beaucoup kudos to NrsKaren for the link to NIH Senior Health ! Thanx to her I have now found the Holy Grail of senior HH teaching materials !!! :up: In particular, I LOVE the large, bold type AND the built in...

OK, all you seasoned nurses, I need advice. :) I should know this from my days in school, but we all know how that goes, and how QUICKLY that goes "bye-bye" ! :chuckle If you give an enema and it is does not produce the desired result, (as in NADA).....

Quick question... am I correct in thinking that since the J peg/tube is in the small intestine, there is really no way of accurately checking any residual ? Do we check residual at all in a J tube prior to administering a tube feeding? What about che...

Ditto ! :)

Everything looks neat, clean, organized. Just the way I like things.. LOL !!!

Quick question... does anybody have any info on this therapy? Called Anodyne Light or Infrared Light Therapy for pain, neuropthy, sports injuries, etc. Are your hospitals/clinics offering this therapy? What about licensing or certification.. what are...

Wow...... I've never heard of THIS before... Really. No PCGs to help? What about the ROM... should she not be getting PT? I do find this odd. Never heard of a nursing visit like this...

Excellent response, KateRN1 !!! :up: