- Full Discussion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nurseup/permalink/847610291989655/Have you ever hesitated in a #hospice patient, to give #Roxanol (morphine sulfate), worried that it might "tip" them over the edge, send them on their way?
Do many perceive #hospice #nurses as practicing #euthanasia when starting #morphine, upping the doses, frequency of meds? - Melissa Brown I'm not and have never been a hospice nurse. I missed that part of the question.
- Andrew Lopez Have given the last dose of #morphine expecting to pronounce soon after more times than I care to remember in 18 years of nursing . .
- Andrew Lopez The worst is when you give the dose, and the patient is so far gone, they have no reserve left . . Get no relief. Need to up the dose.
- Andrew Lopez They were all hospice, all on their way out . . .
- Gail Weatherill Back in the Dark Ages, I published a paper in the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Clnical journal on "Pharmacologic Symptom Control During the Withdrawal of Life Support". I cited studies that were done with people with severe pain who wer...See More
- Leah Korkis Chelsey Primdahl makes an excellent point. NOT treating their pain and shortness of breath will hasten death. There will always be a "last dose".
- Annemarie Sin Tes Why can't we provide a comfortable planned death for those agonizing and suffering in the end? I would like to hear others weigh in? I feel, should I be in the condition some have endured - I would want the right to die with dignity and at a place a...See More
- Michele Tabat DeSocio I will in the near future most likely be dealing with hospice for my mother who is in her 16th year of dementia, age 74. She is on puréed foods and is no longer able to open up her mouth but for a baby spoon. My biggest concern is hydration, may I ask all you hospice experts how you feel about hydrating your loved ones during end of life care?
- Jill O'Hara I'm going back any years before and when Hospice was just a baby. I worked at Roswell and never had second thoughts about administering morphine. It was not done in a manner to bring about a quick departure but to comfort and relieve distress and pain . I've had Hospice for family members and love that they are available!
- Anne LiConti When my mother was on hospice care, I was the family care person. The hospice team was wonderful!!!! Roxanol was a huge comfort relief tool for her. It didnt "push" her over the edge, she was on hospice care 2 years and Roxanol was prescribed during those 2 years, the dose being increased the last week.
- Andrew Lopez Brought this up in our #hospice forum too smile emoticon https://www.facebook.com/groups/242527245954478/permalink/361333824073819/Andrew Lopez shared his post to the group: Nursefriendly, Hospice, End of Life, Palliative Care.Have you ever hesitated in a #hospice patient, to give #Roxanol (morphine sulfate), worried that it might "tip" them over the edge, send them on their way...
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See also: Hospice Nurses
Inspirational Categories: Bereavement, Grief, Loss, Sorrow, Death, Dying, End of Life, Hospice Poems, Parents & Parenting, Religious Poems, Christian Stories
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Gwenn Dalton, RN, Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC:"Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC understands that care is more than tending to the physical end of life; it is a way of caring for the patient, their family, and support group. Through our community outreach programs, continuing nursing education and continuing education workshops, we empower those care givers and end of life professionals with the ability to advance quality of life and to accept the gift of providing a compassionate end of life for their patient or loved one."
Gwenn Dalton, RN
CEO Pro Hospice Solutions, LLC
P.O. Box 327
Moody, TX 76557
254-853-9903 (office) / 254-853-9966 (fax)
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pro-Hospice-Solutions-LLC/220348904701791
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Teri Yarbrough, RN
Gainesville, GA, United States
I am a Travel Nurse specializing in Hospice. I grew up in a Navy family spending time in Guam, Iceland, & Italy. Then married my husband who was a sailor. I have 3 children, Heather, 25; Bear, 23; & BJ (our 4 legged child, a chocolate lab)2. My faith in my Lord Jesus Christ helps get through each day & to minister to my patients. I had gastric bypass 9/11/06. Have lost 150lbs."
Blogger: http://www.blogger.com/profile/18090285584582869197
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TeriRNBSN
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Annette Tersigni RN, Yoga Nursing®:"I am the founder of Yoga Nurse Medical Yoga and Stress Management and am the creator of the enlightening new field of Yoga Nursing® and the Yoga Nursing Institute. Yoga Nursing is the marriage of modern nursing science with the ancient science of yoga. My programs are endorsed by lots of doctors and health care providers as a safe therapy to decrease pain and suffering and help folks to find peace instead of going to pieces. I have dedicated the past 16 years educating people around the world on leading healthier, spiritual lifestyles and with a dose of tough love and loads of laughter helped them to WAKE UP and GET CONSCIOUS NOW.
I am a sought after no barriers heart felt speaker, coach, teacher and writer and am featured extensively in the media including in the Associated Press and on NBC, CBS, Fox News affiliates and have been interviewed on national TV by Arielle Ford as one of America's Experts. I am producing, writing, and acting in several DVD documentary/educational projects: I am training and coaching other nurses, yoga teachers and health professionals throughout the USA and Canada to be Yoga Nursing Therapists and I lead fantabulous Yoga and Juice fasting Makeover Retreats on the magnificent Pyrate laden Crystal Coast of North Carolina. My programs our hip, conscious, filled with hilarious humor, enlightening and designed to inspire and leave a legacy. This is the most prolific, jamming and juicy time of my life and I get to do it all by serving others. SERVING RULES!"
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Tribute to a Hospice Nurse by E.V. Stankowski, RN, Inspirational Poems, Touching Stories:"When it comes to death and dying
There's a special gift you share
One that Angels all admire
One that goes beyond just carehttp://www.inspirationalnursing.com/hn
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Hospice, Palliative Care Nurses, Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow/STTI:"The hospice movement has evolved in the United States over the past 25 years. The focus of hospice care is on comprehensive physical, psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual care to terminally ill persons and their families. Hospice providers promote quality of life by protecting patients from burdensome interventions and providing care at home, whenever possibly, instead of the hospital. Hospice nurses provide care primarily under the guidelines of the Medicare Benefit Act of 1983, a federal program that allows patients to die in their homes with their families and friends at their side."
Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow/STTI
Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International
550 West North Street Indianapolis, IN 46202
bennison@stti.iupui.edu
http://www.nursesource.org/hospice.html
About.com: Death & Dying, Poetry, Blessings, Toasts, Quotes, Prayers and Words of Comfort:"Sometimes, it seems that all you need is the right quote, poem or inspirational message at the right moment to help provide perspective, insight and aid in surviving a loss or crisis. When coping with a death, a significant loss or crisis, it can help to read the words from others who have "been there," coped and survived. This section contains comforting poems and quotes that may be helpful when writing eulogies or obituaries, or used in memorial services, blessing helpful in the healing process, quotes about death and dying and famous last words."
http://dying.about.com/******************************************************
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Web:"Originally organized as the Academy of Hospice Physicians in 1988, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is the only organization in the United States for physicians dedicated to the advancement of hospice/palliative medicine, its practice, research and education."
4700 W. Lake Ave. Glenview, IL 60025-1485
(847)375-4712, tmckissack@amctec.com
http://www.aahpm.org/******************************************************
Aging with Dignity:"Something is terribly wrong: The majority of Americans want to die at home surrounded by family and friends, but most end up dying in the hospital or nursing home, cared for by strangers. Half of Americans die in pain that could have been treated. Sick people have come to fear losing their dignity or burdening their families more than they fear death. And this is all happening in a country that is meant to prize the rights of individuals and champion respect for personal wishes."
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Choice In Dying... ...the nation's experts on end-of-life care Choice In Dying, the inventor of living wills in 1967, is dedicated to fostering communication about complex end-of-life decisions. The nonprofit organizat...
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Hospice Patients Alliance: Consumer Advocates... Hospice Patients Alliance is a consumer advocacy resource center for hospice patients, families, caregivers; promoting hospice patient rights, revealing what NO hospice will tell you; providing inform...
http://www.hospicepatients.org******************************************************
Perinatal Hospice/Supportive Care for the Dying Unborn Infant:"Perinatal hospice provides supportive care for parents and the infant with a serious or fatal birth defect both before and after birth. Most people think of hospice as applying to the elderly or at least adults. It has also been extended to children and even to babies. But it was Dr. Byron Calhoun of Madigan Army Hospital who developed the concept of perinatal hospice."
Supportive Care of the Dying: A Coalition for Compassionate Care Founded in 1994 c/o Providence Health System Sylvia McSkimming, PhD, RN, Executive Director
4805 NE Glisan Street,2E07 Portland, Oregon 97213
tel: (503) 215-5053 fax: (503) 215-5054 e-mail: Sylvia.McSkimming@providence.org
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Africa, Hospice ... Hospice Africa Charity No 1024903 Helping to establish Hospice Care in Africa The aims of Hospice Africa are to provide or support the provision of palliative care to terminally ill cancer patients i...
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American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine... Originally organized as the Academy of Hospice Physicians in 1988, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is the only organization in the United States for physicians ...
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American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine:"Working together, the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (ABHPM) achieved recognition for the subspecialty of hospice and palliative medicine by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). Beginning in 2008, cooperating boards within the ABMS will offer a subspecialty certificate in hospice and palliative medicine. A parallel certification will be offered by cooperating boards within the AOA. AAHPM will support ABHPM diplomates through the expiration of their ABHPM certificates."
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
4700 W. Lake Ave. Glenview, IL 60025
847/375-4712 Fax 847/375-6475 E-mail info@aahpm.org
http://www.aahpm.org******************************************************
American Hospice Management; Hospice Management Firm... Since its founding in 1992 as the nation's first hospice management firm, AHM has grown to serve hospital-based, nursing home-based, and community-based hospice....
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Arizona State, Hospice of the Valley... Hospice of the Valley is celebrating 23 years of service in the valley. Since 1977, we have served more than 32,000 patients ranging in age from newborns to over 100. ...
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Arkansas Hospice Home Page... Enhancing the Quality of Life for the Terminally ill as a Charitable, Non-Profit Community Service Refer Donate Volunteer Get Involved About Arkansas Hospice In Home Care Hospice Center Care Get ...
32 Pages Found, 30 Links Found, 678 Score, http://www.arkansashospice.org******************************************************
Association for Death Education and Counseling:"The Association for Death Education and Counseling®, The Thanatology Association®, is one of the oldest interdisciplinary organizations in the field of dying, death and bereavement. Its nearly 2,000 members include a wide array of mental and medical health personnel, educators, clergy, funeral directors and volunteers. ADEC offers numerous educational opportunities through its annual conference, courses and workshops, its certification program, and via its acclaimed publication, The Forum."
ADEC Headquarters
111 Deer Lake Road, Suite 100
Deerfield, IL 60015 USA
Phone or Fax:
Phone 847-509-0403
Fax: 847-480-9282
http://www.adec.org******************************************************
Hospice of the Conejo:"Hospice of the Conejo is a team of caring people who are dedicated to providing a special blend of compassion and practical and emotional support to patients with life-limiting illnesses and to their families. Our focus is on living - helping people during the final stages of life to make the most of every hour. Our service area covers Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Newbury Park, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Agoura, Oak Park, and Calabasas, California. We are a non-profit agency and all services are provided free-of-charge."
Hospice of the Conejo, 80 East Hillcrest Dr., Thousand Oaks, CA (805)495-2145 hospice@adnetsol.com
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