KSU-SN

KSU-SN has 9 years experience and specializes in Med/Surg.

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1. Pay per visit rates

   KSU-SN replied to KSU-SN's topic in Home Health

   Not sure about entry level now-when I was hired for med/Surg almost 10 years ago I started at $24/hr cost of living in NE Ohio is much lower than in California but still $28 per visit sounds quite low to me

2. Pay per visit rates

   KSU-SN posted a topic in Home Health

   So I have recently been hired at a home health agency PRN. I currently work at another agency hourly and make $30/hr. This new agency pays per visit and their rate is $28/visit no matter if it’s an assessment visit or routine visit. I have no idea wh...

3. Medicare Fraud?

   KSU-SN replied to jlynn2303's topic in Home Health

   If someone other than you is changing your documentation that is wrong...if they are suggesting that you downgrade some of your answers due to what can the patient safely do then that is one thing but if your supervisor is taking it upon him/her self...

4. Medicare Fraud?

   KSU-SN replied to jlynn2303's topic in Home Health

   I was told the question is asking not what the pt can do or is currently doing but what is SAFE. It's all about safety

5. How often do you do med reconciliation?

   KSU-SN posted a topic in Home Health

   The agency I work for just started having us do medication reconciliation every 2 weeks and after every doctor appt. we have always done it at every SOC, ROC, and recert. They say if we do not do it every 2 weeks and after doctor appts and document i...

6. Documenting in car

   KSU-SN replied to Grasshopper11's topic in Home Health

   I would never get my documentation done if I didn't chart in my patients' homes! I can't imagine seeing 5-6 patients every day and then at the end of the day have all that charting to do

7. How flexibile are you with patients in HH

   KSU-SN replied to amillion3147's topic in Home Health

   Medicaid patients aren't required to be homebound correct?

8. When to have the patient sign consent

   KSU-SN posted a topic in Home Health

   I am new to home health, just started 2 1/2 months ago and just last week started doing Start of Cares. I am still on "orientation" if you can call it that because since my second week on the job I have been on my own. Basically I shadowed a nurse fo...

9. Are starting wages negotiable?

   KSU-SN posted a topic in General Nursing

   Hi I just verbally accepted a position as a RN Case Manager for visiting nurse services here in Ohio through a large hospital in the Akron area. When the woman from human resources told me the hourly wage I was stunned. She said it would be $25.50 pe...

10. Surgery floor nurses

    KSU-SN replied to MJB2010's topic in General Nursing

    Our post-ops are not transferred by a nurse they are transferred by a transporter....and we do not get any kind of report. They come up with a trifold filled out with the meds they were given, what their incision site looked like, IV site, and a writ...

11. Dr order for an ice pack?

    KSU-SN replied to misslindsay's topic in Medications

    I work on a surgical care unit and we most definitely have to have an order for an ice pack. Many of our surgeons specifically do not want their patients to have ice packs to their incisions and we had a patient once who came in with a red and swolle...

12. First code, question about family notification

    KSU-SN replied to blackvans1234's topic in Relations

    If someone called me in the middle of the night or whenever and told me my mom or dad coded, NOTHING could hold me back from going immediately to their side.

13. Feeling sad about my ALS patient

    KSU-SN replied to ekramona's topic in General Nursing

    My grandma was pretty recently diagnosed with ALS....she is 83 years old and until about a year ago she ran on the treadmill every night, played basketball with us, mowed 2 acres of grass by herself most of the time...this diagnosis has taken her ver...

14. Is there a flu outbreak in your area?

    KSU-SN replied to Brian's topic in Rock

    Influenza B was the strain going around in my section of the country and a few doctors at work said that people who got the flu shot were still getting the flu because it did not cover Influenza B, only Influenza A.

15. I am struggling with patient families lately.

    KSU-SN replied to jennilynn's topic in Relations

    At the hospital where I work, our management doesnt have our back at all and its very frustrating. A couple of weeks ago we had a female patient who had cancer, was in her 50's, but was still alert and oriented. Her husband, who none of us had ever s...