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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
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Hospice
Hospice is not my forte. At clinical I found myself getting attached to the patients. Given the nature of that particular type of nursing, I think I can go ahead and cross that one off the list.
Photo bomb, yeah!
Re: Hospice
They definitely are amazing people! I haven't figured out how to detach myself from my patients enough to not get my heart broken over and over again. I admire those that are able to because they're able to help so many people!
Photo bomb, yeah!
I don't know how medical workers in general don't get emotionally attached to their patients. I deal with foreclosures and when I hear some of the stories from borrowers my heart just breaks.
Hospice nurses are a special breed of angels. I think the important thing to remember when you are working in hospice is that you are not in a typical nursing situation. You aren't there to help that person get better. They are not leaving physically better than when they came to you. You are there to make them comfortable. You are there to show them and their families love, compasion and comfort in their final days. You have to come to terms with it being the end of a life.
One of the ladies I go to church with is a hospice nurse. She said she had a hard time with it for a while but she was absolutely certain it was what God had called her to do. After a while, she began to see her time with her patients as a gift. She felt like it was a privlidge to know these people and to be with them as they passed on. She has said many times that she has seen the hand of God so many more times as a hospice nurse than she did when she worked as an ER nurse for 12 years.