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tdern

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  1. New to HomeHealth. Please help me, please

    Check out the "red pin" postings that are at the beginning of this page, there are excellent links for resources there. Good luck!
  2. I am getting ready to start HH and found this "early learning" very helpful!! Thank you soooooo much, this helps the OASIS seem a little less intimidating. I am so thankful for this thread and web site.
  3. Just Got Fired, Need Interview Advice

    OMG, sooo sorry for all the crappolla!!! If I were you, I'd make a copy of your post to give with your resume. I could literally feel the stress and impossibilness( not a word I'm sure, but describes the situation) that you were facing. Good luck, an...
  4. Do you give chemo in your HH agency??

    I am also considering HH and now do ICU stepdown/tele. I asked in my interview about chemo, and was told I wouldn't be doing any. How do you like HH? I thought that you could give me a great viewpoint on HH nursing versus PCU/tele nursing, Thanks !
  5. Displaced Autoworker Wants To Be A Nurse 46yrs old

    To MRSRLG: I was an LPN for 14 years and NEVER made the kind of money you quote. I don't make much more than that as an RN! Could you please tell me what part of the country you live in? Maybe I need to move, lol.
  6. Displaced Autoworker Wants To Be A Nurse 46yrs old

    I'm so excited for you!! :heartbeatI went to LPN school at age 30 and returned to get my RN at age 43. My best friend in NS was 51. We were in the top 5 in our class. We had the sense to stay out of all the "drama" that some of the younger NS were in...
  7. I work on an ICU sister unit/ step down unit. We only do heparin drips d/t a heparin protocol that's in place. We do cardizem drips, but only if it is a set drip that doesn't have to be titrated. Any other drips that require titration, frequent vs, a...
  8. soon to Be RN and no job YET? Commute?

    Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! I drive an hour, or 54 miles, one way to work. I work 12 hour shifts. I sold my big SUV and bought a little gas sipper, so I can get to work on a tank of gas every week and I have a ten gallon tank. I have...
  9. Veteran nurse here, telemetry unit. I actually used Concept Maps in NS, and they are sooo much better than care plans for learning in the school settings. In school, as much as I hated them, they did help my critical thinking skills and to be able to...
  10. NO, mama is NOT getting better, she's going to go to the light. Do you hear that coughing and sputtering every time you shove something in her mouth? It's going in her lungs, that's why she can't breathe, that and the terminal lung cancer with mets! ...
  11. The Patient I Failed

    This was so beautifully written, thank you. It should be copied and given to family members who go against those express wishes of their loved ones, and there are alot of them.
  12. What does your login nickname mean to you?

    great question, nnnikki!! i'm new to this site even though i became a user in 06. who had time to "use" while they were in school?lol. my name is tammy and my sweet, love of my life little dog is daisy. she "owns" me, not the other way around, hahaha...