What is "stacking"?

[whisperinrain]

Can anyone please tell me what "stacking" is? I am a new nurse and 1st heard the term this weekend in regards to a patient who was on hospice and had been prescribed both morphine and hydrocodone. Thanks!

[mwk80]

i am doing rn-bsn and our instructor happen do give us this link. http://nursingworld.org/mainmenucategories/anamarketplace/anaperiodicals/ojin/tableofcontents/vol152010/no1jan2010/complex-work-of-rns.aspx

stacking is the invisible, decision-making work of rns about the what, how, and when of delivering nursing care to an assigned group of patients (ebright et al., 2003).

i hope it helps.