chopwood carrywater

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1. Do Not Resuscitate - An Inconvenient Truth About Our Healthcare System

   chopwood carrywater replied to Skwidward's topic in General Nursing

   As a NP I used to work with in hospice said “sometimes we are just prolonging their

2. Thinking about hospice nursing

   chopwood carrywater replied to honeygirl1223's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   How long is the orientation. What will your caseload be. What is the on call requirement. What is the geographical area you will be covering. How well does the current hospice team work and get along...

3. VITAS in DFW

   chopwood carrywater replied to arvolina's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Oops; I must have been more tired than I thought. Here's the link: United States Files False Claims Act Lawsuit Against the Largest For-Profit Hospice Chain in the United States | OPA | Department of...

4. VITAS in DFW

   chopwood carrywater replied to arvolina's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Here's a link to justice.gov a legal site with details of a major lawsuit against Vitas. Sounds like things haven't improved

5. Taking home empty vials

   chopwood carrywater replied to johndough's topic in Patient Medications

   Not worth the risks. Be creative and find another way. Use other small glass bottles and hard, create/recreate the labels. Play around with it. Use a photo of the actual vials and collage it or cut...

6. CPAP Pt

   chopwood carrywater replied to bdbrdb's topic in Private Duty

   Does this CPAP have a humidifier and is it at a setting that will not dry out and irritate the oral

7. Hospice in Hospitals

   chopwood carrywater replied to nurse0079's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Some do. Usually the pt has symptom mgt issues and they are a GIP pt which requires the pt to be in a 24/7 SN facility that meets certain requirements and that the hospice has a contract with to...

8. Endoscopy nursing to Hospice?

   chopwood carrywater replied to RNgeorgia's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Georgia, I don't think that your experience as an endoscopy nurse will ruin your chances to get a job as a hospice nurse. The issue may be that you have not had much experience giving end of life...

9. Jumping Frenchmen

   chopwood carrywater replied to Julius Seizure's topic in General Nursing

   You can read about Miracle Mike the headless chicken. Mike the Headless Chicken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I believe I have seen nurses in similar condition after certain

10. I'm Done With Nursing.

    chopwood carrywater replied to RegNurse1987's topic in General Nursing

    I also think you should consider hospice. But it also depends on the team you would be working with. I love the group of people I work with- warts and

11. Nurses smoking weed?

    chopwood carrywater replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I replied that way bc I was truly worried that going to that link would put some sort of virus on my phone. I apologize for the kite remark. As for the tabloid remarks, I stand by my description of...

12. Nurses smoking weed?

    chopwood carrywater replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Sherri64, That is one sketchy website in your post about mj deaths. And I'm not being cute. Nothing seemed real: not the picture, not the article, and it was surrounded by ads that made me want to...

13. Words You Hate

    chopwood carrywater replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    Fagaceae is the botanical name of the Family of trees that includes the genus Quercus (Oak) as well as Fagus (Beech) and chestnuts. In old England to put a fagot on the fire meant to put a bundle of...

14. Words You Hate

    chopwood carrywater replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    ... frog, spasmodic, and the far flung Isles of Langerhans". Name that reference if you

15. Impaction question

    chopwood carrywater replied to feelix's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    What do you mean by "stops tolerating"? So if there was nausea or vomiting, then there's a real risk for aspiration. And the GI tract may be in the process of shutting down if it's not getting...