sunnygirl272 replied to JULESNYRN's topic in Home Health
Hi, Julie! Welcome to the board! I work in home care also. Luckily, I do not have to do beeper call. I do assigned visits on my weekends. Let me ponder the topic a bit, and come back to it.. ~SunnyGirl
My mother (also a nurse) never had any Sx that she attributed to cardiac....until she coded at work...thrombolytics failed...after a day or 2 int the unit, and finally being transferred to a Syracuse hosp,(local hosp doesn't to caths...)...the cath s...
sunnygirl272 replied to kcrnsue's topic in Home Health
it's medicare. venipuncture alone is not a skilled nursing need. you may feel the client needs continuing monitoring...but medicare will not allow payment for monitoring a stable client just in case something ges wrong..even though you know it will ...
sunnygirl272 replied to kcrnsue's topic in Home Health
We had an obese bipolar client w/hep c....she would've given you the shirt off her back, but who knows when that shirt had last been washed, or the back she took it off of, either.... she had a bird of some sort, used to fly freely through the house....
sunnygirl272 replied to Sleepyeyes's topic in General Nursing
OOOhh...that's a toughie....will await replies.... i would want to give the other 1mg....but dunno if that flies......maybe call the md? we know they love it when we call them....
seems to me to be normal curiosity... why are you upset that a little boy wanted to do this, but not upset that a little girl did? why do you feel you are required by your license to do something? I would definately talk to the other mom though....
i can see if the patient is demented...in those cases, they aren't really gonna get the jist anyhoo...but it is just so wrong to not tell an adult pt their own diagnosis/prognosis. pssssttt.....hipppaaaaaa?