tdrynelle

tdrynelle has 4 years experience.

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1. Admissions RN duties?

   tdrynelle replied to Little_Mouse's topic in Hospice

   I've only been in hospice for about 1 1/2 years, but absolutely love it. I started out in case mgmt and now just do admissions, which I actually like a lot more than I thought I would when my manager first asked me to take the job. I work for a fa...

2. Nursing bag for hospice RN?

   tdrynelle replied to crossingfingers10's topic in Hospice

   I use this same bag (http://www.hopkinsmedicalproducts.co...|5673&id=18456) and love it. Highly recommend!

3. I want to be a hospice nurse so bad!!!!

   tdrynelle replied to RockinChick66's topic in Hospice

   RockinChick66, I, like you, went in to nursing (2nd career for me) to become a hospice nurse. I only worked one year in the acute care setting (oncology unit) and then one year home health care before I finally landed my dream job as a hospice RN ca...

4. Nightingale Home Health..anyone?

   tdrynelle replied to Lucky724's topic in Home Health

   I too worked for them as a PRN in Minnesota - and I had to do oncall as part of the position (in fact, 2 weeks after starting I was on call). The company itself was good, but at the time I worked for them they did not have enough hours to keep me bu...

5. Home Health Hours? Work 3-4 days a week F/T?

   tdrynelle replied to ws582's topic in Home Health

   WS582 - I work in home health and work mostly 4 days per week. Each RN case manager manages a case load of 45-55 clients and are required to do 25 visits per week. If we can get all the client visits done by Thursday, we do not have to go out on vi...

6. Blood draws and home health

   tdrynelle replied to Sensoria17's topic in Home Health

   Not a deal breaker for home care. If you don't know how to do it, they will gladly teach you (if you even need to learn at all - at my place, we very rarely do blood draws in the home, most of our clients go in for that).

7. What do you wear?

   tdrynelle replied to RRlc's topic in Home Health

   I think it depends on the company you work for. One place I was at all the nurses wore scrubs (choice was scrubs or business casual, as it was a lot of wound cares, 99% choose scrubs). The place I'm at now, casual/jeans are the norm

8. What you wished you knew when you started NS...

   tdrynelle replied to httamli's topic in New Nurse

   I too choose nursing as a second career. I have only been working for about 8 months so far (and not really in the area I want to), but I have no regrets because I know there is so much I can do with my nursing license. The only two things I wish I...

9. Terrified of killing my patients/making mistakes/missing something important

   tdrynelle replied to Lola77's topic in New Nurse

   Totally normal. I'm off orientation for 2 months now and still feel like that. I do have to admit, though, working on the night shift is way less hectic then days. Although you have more patients, you remove the doctor's bugging you part. Yes, yo...

10. Night shift and Oncology unit questions

    tdrynelle replied to PeaceLove88's topic in New Nurse

    I too am starting my nursing career on an Oncology unit, working nights (which I hadn't done before). I have now been off orientation for about months. As for working nights, I have yet to get tired on nights, mostly because I'm too busy to stop an...

11. Does it get easier????!!!

    tdrynelle replied to BB06's topic in New Nurse

    IndyMitchell - You are not alone. I'm 43 and in the same boat, coming from another career (where I was the expert and knew everything) to now knowing nothing, feeling overwhelmed at times and feeling like it's just me that is not getting it. From a...

12. Orientation Length/Number of Pts

    tdrynelle replied to berquj's topic in New Nurse

    As a fellow new grad, I don't think you're overreacting. I think no one feels prepared to be out on their own without the security of a preceptor to help get you through the day. But once you go on your own, you won't really be alone either - your ...

13. New Grads: How was your day today???

    tdrynelle replied to Misslady113's topic in New Nurse

    Student2Registered: I totally feel your pain. Although I have an assigned preceptor, she's out on vacation a lot right now, so I end up with different people each day. For the most part, it works out for me. I like to learn difference people's ...

14. Jobs after graduation

    tdrynelle replied to Tua15395's topic in New Nurse

    Tua15395, I wouldn't worry about jobs yet. A lot can change in 2 years. When I started school 2 years ago, the job market was pretty open for new grads. Of course, all that changed during my last semester of school. So when I graduated in May, the...

15. My Nclex experience (on a Friday, in MN) and answers to some questions...

    tdrynelle posted a topic in NCLEX

    First off, I would like to thank everyone who contributes to this thread. Although I don't contribute much to it, I do read it a lot and am thankful for all the advice I got from it. However, since I could never really find answers to a few of my qu...