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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

We didn’t have pain as a fifth vital sign then. Particularly with patients in our hospice unit who are often not on IV fluids, getting dehydrated, getting ever-escalating doses of IV Dilaudid. And you should be able to give it in your hospice unit, like we can in our intensive palliative care unit. Janet: Oh.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch makes good on a promise made during the first episode to answer questions that readers have submitted over time. Transcript: Welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. Okay, another sign to look for is a change in their vital signs. That would be awesome.

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Nursing Behind Bars: My Experience As a Corrections Nurse

Nurse.com

I spent three of those 10 years working as a staff nurse in med-surg and perioperative units and the rest in various positions in home health and hospice. “I just want to thank you,” he told me one day when I was checking his vital signs. He wore diapers and couldn’t consistently feed himself.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. And I know that sounds like a long time ago, but it, when you think of the history of healthcare, you know, only in the last 60 years have nurses held that that role, you know, of, of taking vital signs.