Providing Comfort During the Last Days of Life with Barbara Karnes RN | EOLU Podcast

[@karencreekmore889]

Thanks for this helpful conversation, working on my EOL 🦋

[@antoniocezarfontolan9715]

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[@sandraleblanc5348]

I just ordered a bunch of Barbara’s books since I’m starting my own little Death Doula business, they will come in handy.

[@victoriajohnson3034]

Another great video from the two of you!!! Thank you so very much!

[@silvialyle7860]

Thank you for this conversation, very helpful. I also took care of my mom 15 years ago, having this information was very important and valuable for me. Hope more people get to learn this. Thank you

[@nonrevlife4428]

Aloha Barb mahalo for all of it

[@michmack2008]

Thank you both so much for this really helpful video and all the pointers as well as reminding us that it is also our state of mind that will affect our loved one’s experience as well as our own ❤

[@michelles9897]

🤍 this is a must watch for everyone! I wish I had understood more before I had to handle this on my own not knowing what to do. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@victoriajohnson3034]

Wondering if you could use coconut oil on a q tip to help with dry mouth. Applied lightly to lips and tounge.

[@Bd6598-m4v]

Excellent

[@commenter1130]

My mom did the same thing with coffee.. just really wanted a "cup of coffee" the day she was dying. I scrambled to make some, and just a spoonful satisfied that desire.

[@commenter1130]

I found that adult diapers held too much moisture against my mom's skin, and I ended up using flat cloth diapers on top of the waterproof mat we were provided. Luckily she had become accustomed to diapers, to which she had been introduced by the hospice nurses (not me, fortunately, like Barbara says). Calmoseptine was an excellent barrier ointment: very thick, though, and hard to wash out of bedding and clothing.

[@druo7840]

❤️

[@victoriajohnson3034]

Are hospice workers allowed to administer pain medication for end of life weeks? If so, what kinds? Or is medication only administered by caregivers and doctors?

[@NursePeter]

I'm replying as a visiting hospice RN. Hospice is supportive services for primary caregivers for a terminally ill patient. Hospice is a philosophy of comfort care (palliative care at end of life) and a service; hospice IS NOT a location. So the patient who is terminal is either at home (a private residence) or in some type of facility (personal care, memory care, assisted living, skilled nursing). The caregivers in those locations give regular medications. When I'm visiting the patient, I can give medications, but none of the visiting hospice staff are there for blocks of time. We come, we provide education, encouragement, training, support, work with the doctor over the phone on medication and treatment changes, and then move onto the next patient and so on.

[@antoniocezarfontolan9715]

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