http://eoleducation.org/blog/conservatives-are-missing-the-point/ Resources for Important Decisions Sat, 22 May 2010 18:56:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://eoleducation.org/blog/conservatives-are-missing-the-point/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Denise Chlastawa Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:52:28 +0000 http://eoleducation.org/blog/conservatives-are-missing-the-point/#comment-4 I am a RN of 30 years, and I work in a long term acute hospital. The unit I work on is a vent unit where we try to wean patients off their vents. Most are elderly, and sad to say, most are full codes. Some are also on dialysis. Very few of the elderly ever make it home. I wish I could leave a copy of your book in every room. Just last night I tried to convince one of my patients's daughter to at least make him a DNR. Didn't work, she felt she could not live with herself if she did that. I agree with you that education is the key. Code status should be discuss with every elderly patient. My widowed 83 year old mother who still lives by herself and still drives has her DNR papers on her fridge. My father lived 2 years in a nursing home and since his quality of life was poor, most of that time he was a hospice patient. I am a RN of 30 years, and I work in a long term acute hospital. The unit I work on is a vent unit where we try to wean patients off their vents. Most are elderly, and sad to say, most are full codes. Some are also on dialysis. Very few of the elderly ever make it home. I wish I could leave a copy of your book in every room. Just last night I tried to convince one of my patients’s daughter to at least make him a DNR. Didn’t work, she felt she could not live with herself if she did that.
I agree with you that education is the key. Code status should be discuss with every elderly patient. My widowed 83 year old mother who still lives by herself and still drives has her DNR papers on her fridge. My father lived 2 years in a nursing home and since his quality of life was poor, most of that time he was a hospice patient.

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