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1. Miles on my car

   cargalrn replied to friendlylark's topic in Hospice

   Here's an idea. Take the money you get for mileage and put it in the separate savings account for car expenses and a down payment for a new car when you need it.

2. Hospice nurse role in death at home.

   cargalrn posted a topic in Hospice

   Hi I'm new to hospice and and I work on call. I did do hospice years ago. My question is... After arriving at a death in pronouncing and wasting medications call the funeral home called the doctor and call the coroner. How many nurses wait until the ...

3. Triage and on call

   cargalrn posted a topic in Hospice

   I just got a new seven day on seven day off on call Hospice position. What are typical reasons why and RN would go out other than intractable pain or a death. I understand admissions, death visits, and routine visits. For example would one go out to ...

4. On-call hospice nurse

   cargalrn replied to lwheatley's topic in Hospice

   Hi hospice on call nurses I have a question I just started that on call position and I am not clear on what I need to go out for. ITriage myself. Should I go out for a skin tear in a facility?

5. On-call hospice nurse

   cargalrn replied to lwheatley's topic in Hospice

   I'd like to update this thread. Any on-call hospice nurse is out there? What do you go out for? I understand there's some routine visits and admissions. You would go out for deaths, intractable pain, but what other issues would you go out for? Would ...

6. Weekend program in home health

   cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

   They're telling me I have to go to the office to complete the charting and my anxiety is out of the ballpark about this. They're threatening to report me to the state. I really don't know what to do. If I could finish the charting from home I would b...

7. Weekend program in home health

   cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

   So I almost had a nervous breakdown about this job. I put in my resignation via email on my iPad that they issued. I offered to meet somebody to pick up all the equipment in my computer my car stock Etc and the human resource manager is insisting I g...

8. Weekend program in home health

   cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

   I resigned today.

9. Weekend program in home health

   cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

   Thank you. I'm new to home care. There also should be incentive for working the weekend program and 12-14 hour days isn't one of them

10. Weekend program in home health

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

    More... I asked at the interview if they were eight hour days and she said yes and some charting. But now I'm told that I may be doing up to four start to care a day. If every started care is 3 hours that's a 12-hour day and I know it's going to be m...

11. Weekend program in home health

    cargalrn posted a topic in Home Health

    I'm looking into a weekend program in home health and I was wondering what the time commitments would look like. It would be a Friday Saturday and Sunday. Are these realistically 12-hour days?

12. Psych Nursing: A unique field of nursing.

    cargalrn replied to Patti_RN's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks much for your response. So, it depends. LOL. I know it can bite you in the butt, but why is a hospital different from communtity nursing?

13. Psych Nursing: A unique field of nursing.

    cargalrn replied to Patti_RN's topic in Psychiatric

    I enjoy psych nursing also. I work in a locked unit. When is ok to keep in contact with former patients? I have alot of questions on boundaries and ethics. Can anyone point me to a good source? Thank you for this article.

14. Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism

    We are both divorced and our children are already raised; between the two of us, my three dtrs and his one dtr, are grown women, employed in good careers, college grads and are all probably on birth control. Without it they probably would never be ...

15. Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    cargalrn posted a topic in Activism

    My fiance is very angry to mandate that oral contraceptives should be paid for by health insurance. I feel it is a woman's right, and it is a medication, in additional to medical uses besides preventing pregnancy. But is it a health care issue t...