It sounds like you were thrown into an impossible situation. That said, I would suggest using all of your available resources (nurse manager, nurse educator, peers) to help you through this time. I...
I would agree - this is something that should not be a surprise to the patient/family and should be planned for. The team needs to make arrangements for any meds/DME that hospice will no longer be...
My hospice has a very comprehensive 90 day orientation program for all clinical staff. There are a number of computer training classes and day-long classes on symptom control, pharmacology, and...
When I was working in a hospital setting, I had frequent work-related dreams. In these dreams, I had an assignment but for some reason was not keeping up with it. I was aware of time passing and tasks...
I was the kid who read the anatomy section of the encyclopedia (in fact I think I got in trouble for showing it a little kid in my neighborhood!). I have always been fascinated by medicine and the...
It does not sound crazy at all! We have all taken different paths into hospice nursing, but I think we stay because of the work. I came into it with 9 years of oncology experience (with a little...
I had a really good neurologist who was pretty aggressive in managing my migraines. My headaches have always waxed and waned and I have been in pretty good control for that last 5 years or so. I think...
It does get better! I was on an oncology floor at a large teaching hospital for nine years. I did not realize until I had moved on to another job how my health had suffered. In addition to...
That is how we use our medical directors. Some of our patients have their own physicians, but we often access our physicians for advice/guidance on symptom management. They also act as primary...
Woodsyny, what is the # for the math class at Iowa? I was looking at their online catalog and couldn't easily find it. There was no difficulty transferring this class to
Thanks for the info! I start in August and bought the Word for Mac 2011 and also downloaded PERRLA. Need all the help I can get....graduated from nsg school