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req_read

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  1. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    A wide range of interesting issues have been raised… where to start? How about with nurse’s self-awareness. Dying (or living) consciously may seem a rather vague concept at first. But getting...

  2. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    What wonderful posts!! Thanks guys. Leslie… I laughed at your line: “…albeit not yet speechless.” I suspect speechlessness is not in your sign. I got sort of choked up reading about your...

  3. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Hi Leslie… good to hear from you. When I speak of good death I am distinguishing between the specific and the general (in favor of the general)… or between the relative and the non-conditional (in...

  4. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Nettie… As for your 2nd post (re: your stroke patient) I would be inclined to agree with your assessment. Trust your gut. Michael I’ve studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine— And...

  5. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Nettie… Hello down there! I just exchanged emails with someone in Australia. She was heading to the beach with suntan lotion in hand and could see smoke coming from bush fires, so I sent her a...

  6. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    EmptytheBoat… It is axiomatic that the more one learns the more one realizes there is to learn. Another way of expressing the same concept would be to say that the more one learns the more open one...

  7. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thank you Leslie, I am truly touched. I am not surprised your pt asked you to assist him and not a family member. Your understanding, acceptance and lack of entanglements must have been a great...

  8. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thanks Leslie & Beki… jerseyRN’s allusion to Maslow tickled a memory cell or two… way, way back to my first year in nursing school. His work is an appropriate analogy; i.e. his “ultimate...

  9. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Just to put this thread to bed before it dies on the vine… “Conscious dying” is the epitome of patient-directed care. It implies, by definition, that the patient chooses to move on… cross...

  10. Is it always better to die at home?

    req_read replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Leslie... Your preferences sound much like an old cowboy I was once told of. I did not know him personally, but people who did said he had been healthy and active all his life and lived to a ripe old...

  11. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    katillac… I am intrigued by the paragraph in the middle of your last post; i.e. the “One specific example.” I realize you were probably a little upset when you wrote it, but I’m not sure I’m...

  12. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Okay… so we went through all of that to learn that you disagree with my original thesis. Might I ask why? Also, you seem to have gotten the impression somewhere along the line that I advocate...

  13. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Katillac… The most common way of dealing with dying in our society… a death averse society… is to avoid it as much as possible. The majority of people try very hard to not think about death and...

  14. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thanks river1951… it was getting awfully lonely around here. It is a well known fact that different people, observing the same thing, will see it differently. Defense lawyers use this to their...

  15. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Thanks again Leslie. You know, I got kind of sick a few months back and thought for awhile there that this might be it. Do you know what I wanted to do first? Go fishing in the wilderness one more...

  16. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    katillac… I apologize for rankling, but wanted to make a point… and yours is well taken. Of course if we take your point to its ultimate conclusion we could say that a pedophile who indulges his...

  17. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Being warned by your nursing preceptor not to spend too much time with patients is, sadly, a sign of the times. And as the baby boomers start hitting the healthcare system in large numbers it will...

  18. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Leslie! How can you say such a thing? I love hearing from you. You are one of the most experienced, insightful hospice nurses I have ever come across. If we cannot share our experiences and...

  19. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Well, so much for trying to inject a little levity into this conversation. Self analysis is usually fertile ground for humor… assuming one has a sense of humor. I have received a few private...

  20. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I am still curious about how many hospice nurses have seen or been involved with patients who have crossed over consciously. It is clear that hospice nurses are sympathetic. If someone starts a...

  21. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Yes… exactly true… just spend time sitting with them… being with them. That is the key. Humans “being”… as opposed to… humans doing. I had not thought of this for years, but the lady I...

  22. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Miricaro… welcome to the Southwest. river1951… I like good stories too. Unfortunately I have to provide the barest of essential facts when giving examples of patients I have known who crossed...

  23. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Let me get back to a question posed previously and ask all you experienced hospice nurses about “conscious deaths” you may have seen or been involved with. It is not necessary that you were...

  24. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Exactly. Thanks Leslie. Perhaps the gentleman introduced by introspectiveRN would be a good case study. It often seems that those who need the least help benefit the most and are the most...

  25. Managing symptoms for a �good death�

    req_read replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Well, I was actually hoping to sit back and hear what all the experienced hospice nurses who participate here would have to say… what they have seen and what they have thought (about what they have...