Hello there. I have been a Hospice nurse going over a year now. The day I dropped off my application I was questioning what I was doing. The problem is Hospice brings about terrifying emotions. Dead...
Hello there. Yes, I did work full time while in school. Was it a wise decision? No. The only thing I can tell you is to endulge yourself in the reading. Work is work and school is school. Just keep in...
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Hi there. I will start by saying it's in the genes. My mother was an OB nurse in the navy, aunt was a nurse at the prison, my twin brother and I are nurses, my other aunt and her daughter are nurses....
Ok, I am an LPN with Hospice. THe other day I went to do an assessment on one of our PT's. She was constipated from Morphine and had been four days or so without a BM. PT asked me if I could give her...
Hello there. I can offer some advice but I don't know your regs. For one, being a case manager that PT's entire chart is your responsibility. That means when something is missing, it's your butt. So...
In my agency we do not do IV's. It's one of our regular teaching we try to do. I had a PCG concerend that her husband was dehydrated, mind you he was actively dying. I informed her that a dying body...
Hello there. I am a nurse with Hospice and we just got done doing terminal sedation on one of our patients. I will start by saying this gentleman had lung ca with bone mets. He was in excruciating...
Hi there. I am employed with Hospice in my area and one thing I have noticed is as soon as we introduce MSIR or Roxanol families flip! They all do the reading and figure that Morphine will stop...
Good morning out there. My name is James and I am an RN student. I work at Hospice of the North Country and have to say it is the best place I have ever worked. First of all, I have tried to find my...