Hospice Nursing

What is Hospice Nursing? What does the Hospice Nurse do?

Some describes Hospice Nursing as caring for the patient at the end of his life. But
what is really hospice nursing? Personally, I think for me it is being there for
someone when the light has finally died down. Being the strenght when everything
seems to be falling into pieces.

Purpose of Hospice Nursing?

The primary purpose of hospice nursing is to keep patients comfortable in their last
days, and to provide family members with information about the patient's condition.
Hospice Nursing can be quiet stressful compared to other brances of nurses because
you are usually dealing with dying patient but some nurses who are in hospice nurse
says that it can also be rewarding.

How to become a Hospice Nurse?

All hospice nurses must be registered nurses (RNs) in addition to being certified by a
state health department as a hospice worker. Aside from obtaining a bachelor’s
degree, all states require prospective nurses to graduate from an accredited nursing
school and successfully pass a national licensing examination. Then, to become a
certified hospice nurse, you must have a current license as an RN and at least two
years of full-time experience as an RN in a hospice-nursing practice, and you must
pass the exam administered by the National Board for the Certification of Hospice
Nurses.

Hospice Nursing! It is simply being there enduring the sorrow of the family and
helping your client during his pain helping him managed it by providing him
medications, ensuring patients comfort, providing adequate nutrition, sending for
priests or family members if the patient wanted to.

Helping the family understand the process of dying, being there for them physically
and emotionally. 

Hospice Nursing is staying with the patient before death, during death and after
death…

Telephone Triage Nursing

What is a Telephone Triage Nursing?

For years the telephone had been one of the quickest and most reliable form in
communication. Often, it is being used by clients as a tool to seek medical advice.

What does a Telephone Triage Nurse do?

Nowadays, Telephone Triage Nursing is one of the fastest growing profession in the
United States. They will no longer need to provide one on one care running from
one room to the other taking care of their patients. Instead, nurses will be buzy
answering telephone calls from clients regarding specific medical concerns. It will be
just like in the call center set up only that, they will provide answers to medical
concerns whether the patient need an urgent care and need to go the emergency
hospital or what should they do first when help is still not around. Telephone Triage
Nurses is earning as much as $22-35/hour with night differentials and weekend pay.

Advantages of a Telephone Triage Nurse

Some of the advantages in working as a Telephone Triage Nurse are- First, you will
not be physically strain like when your really working in the hospital carrying and
lifting patients. Second, you will have less chances of being exposed to various
diseases like H1N1, HIV etc. However, some of the detremint in working as a
Telephone Triage is that it is very stressful in a way that you will be buzy answering
phones that most of the time you will rely your foods from fastfood chains and it is
very unhealthy. Sitting for a long period of time is also a health risk because you will
have a sedentary lifestyle less exercise etc.

The world today, has a lot of things to offer and its really up to your choices whether
your apt to the challenges that might lay ahead.

LATEST TRENDS/FADS IN NURSING

What are the latest trends or fads in Nursing? 

• Obtaining your nursing education on line is one of the latest trends in nursing.
Before, students really go to school to study nursing subjects with teachers
explaining things to them. Nowadays, Nursing students can gain their diploma by
studying on line, their professors demonstrate things they need to learn on line and
they also get exams using the net.

• Nursing Scrubs are also one of the latest trends/fads in Nursing profession
nowadays. Before, nurses just wear their white uniforms but now, nurses enjoy
various designs in their scrubs- be it printed, with disney characters for those nurses
working in pediatric departments, different colors from light to dark colors. Patterns
also changed from plain to sylish designs- chinese collars, V-necks, Round necks etc.
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• Complimentary and Alternative Medicines are also one of the latest fads in Nursing
Profession.

• Moist wound dressings as well as Maggot therapies and the like are also one of the
latest trends in Nursing nowadays.