10/10/2026
Things that scare me as a hospice nurse:
• Force-feeding someone whose body is literally shutting down
• The daughter from California flying in with it new opinions and a whole new care plan
• CPR being started on a patient with a DNR
• Having to explain to the patient that they’re on hospice because apparently nobody else did
• Severe terminal agitation while the comfort kit is still sitting untouched in the pharmacy
• A facility acting like morphine is a controlled substance from the depths of hell
Death doesn’t scare me.
The unnecessary suffering, lack of communication, and preventable chaos?
THAT scares me.