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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...

  16. Nurses smoking weed?

    chopwood carrywater replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I understand your actions re your employees, although I feel it is invasive unless there is actual cause. That being said, since you are against it based on its illegality, what would you do if any...

  17. Nurses smoking weed?

    chopwood carrywater replied to bunnynurse's topic in General Nursing

    I have started reading a book by David Casarett M.D. Titled Stoned: A doctor's case for medical marijuana. He is a palliative care physician and teaches at university of Pennsylvania med school....

  18. Life, death, and dying.

    chopwood carrywater replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    Not trying to be a soul crusher here but here is a great link to an episode of Radiolab (NPR) called cellmates- as in living cells. The part about how much power/energy is created by mitochondria is...

  19. Life, death, and dying.

    chopwood carrywater replied to CardiacDork's topic in General Nursing

    All too often treatment like you describe ends up prolonging a person's death; not their

  20. The film: Vaxxed.

    chopwood carrywater replied to macawake's topic in General Nursing

    I don't know if this has already been mentioned in previous posts, but if you need relief from conspiracy loons in general, I highly recommend seeing this satire piece by John Oliver on Cadbury Easter...

  21. End of life liquid meds vs crushed

    chopwood carrywater replied to Race Mom's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I would file a complaint. And I would absolutely put this down on the survey. Also bring it up with their ethics

  22. Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    chopwood carrywater replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    I definitely wasn't making fun of the issue. But I do love wordplay. Not a big fan and not a user of fragrances. My wife is pretty sensitive herself. Strangely, one of the fragrances that gives me a...

  23. Do you go to work with parabens on you?

    chopwood carrywater replied to RNdynamic's topic in General Nursing

    I usually don't have time for parabens. I barely have time to put on parapants and

  24. Hospice EMR

    chopwood carrywater replied to Nascar nurse's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    McKesson- at least the version my hospice uses - is terrible. Hard to read menu choices. Limit as to how much information you can put on the page. This is really a problem with adding information to...

  25. Words You Hate

    chopwood carrywater replied to OyWithThePoodles's topic in General Nursing

    Any medication name that is more than 3 syllables or has more than 43.39 % consonants. All the medication brand names that were created to sound like a cross between a perfume and a fairyland...