twinkle_ears

twinkle_ears has 4 years experience and specializes in telemetry, med/surg, hospice, long term.

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1. Point of Service documentation

   twinkle_ears replied to dalmos's topic in Hospice

   The company I work for utilizes this form of charting. The system is very user friendly, mostly checking boxes. I went from paper charting to computers and at first I thought the same that it would take away from the intimacy. I have found however th...

2. List of CIII medications for pain

   twinkle_ears replied to AtlantaRN's topic in Hospice

   what a pain. i completely feel for you. whenever i get a hard script i make a photo copy and place in the pt chart and write on it original to pharmacy. its the law that the pharmacy have the original. you can find a list of all cii and ciii at dea....

3. PHCC Hopefuls for spring 09

   twinkle_ears replied to kkcontractors's topic in Florida

   Hey! I completed the PN program at PHCC 5 years ago. can tell you that my start date was changed 3 times in about a month time. However 5 years ago my original start date was like 3 years later. There was huge waiting lists. Anyhow; I started in Aug...

4. IDG Meetings?

   twinkle_ears replied to eparker5305's topic in Hospice

   I work for a hospice that has a very structured IDG and we have cheat sheets. We start with dx, comorbidities, any changes since last IDG, any spiritual or psychosocial issues, and end with why they are still meeting hospice criteria.

5. How do you use the FAST Scale?

   twinkle_ears replied to NurseAlwaysNForever's topic in Hospice

   I have always been taught that the FAST scale goes from 1 to 7 and you can not go forward without having the previous on the scale therefore, someone that is A&O x3 cannot be a 7C because they are able to speak more than 6 intelligle words throug...

6. Any combined BS/MS Program in Florida??

   twinkle_ears replied to hopeful84's topic in Florida

   i believe that the university of south florida has a combined program. the way i understood it once you begin your bn you can apply and start your msn. hope this helps.

7. Share Your Funniest Patient Stories...

   twinkle_ears replied to Trvln Nurse's topic in Humor

   This is my first reply but after being up all night reading this thread it made me remember a couple of funny stories that happened to me so I had to share. During my clinicals while still in school I was assigned a pt that was going for a BKA due t...