[tired&retired]

“No one is deliberately euthanizing hospice patients.”

I’ve been doing hospice work for over twenty years and have been around a lot of different groups and patients. Sorry to say, they are deliberately euthanizing hospice patients.

It is the norm to increase the morphine or Oxy to a level where they feel no pain, and lose much consciousness and quality of life in the process. It is a balancing act to find that fine line between no pain and clarity of mind. I try to err on the low side, most err on the high dose side.

Yes, I have worked with many types of pain, including bone cancer. Been with quite a few while they passed on over the years. There is much more to it than most realize.

[caww]

Yes....we went through this with my mom being given too much so she hallucinated. She took all her small items under her eating table, put them in a napkin and tied it to a handle she found. She was leaving to become a Hobo. This from her hospital room! She was actually dieing from cancer at the time. I recall a nurse saying she couldn't imagine working any other area except the terminal cancer floor. Said it was the most rewarding and fulfilling job of all her nursing expereinces.

I saw and heard enough on that floor to understand the care, the pain and the amazing work of great nurses.....no doubt though there are some otherwise.

[kaila]

Sorry, but I disagree. If a patient is in so much pain that they require high doses of pain medication which may cause death due to respiratory depression, then that is not euthanasia. No medical personnel is going to risk their license to do euthanasia.
Are you an RN , MD, NP or PA?