Ruth1201

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1. Weekends

   Ruth1201 posted a topic in Home Health

   Our nursed work every 4th weekend and only get a day back during the next week if they do at least 6 visits on both Sat and Sun. otherwise no day back which means they have to work 12 days in a row. What are other agencies doing about days back? Th...

2. Field Nurse Supervisors

   Ruth1201 replied to Ruth1201's topic in Home Health

   We are MCA certified, dropped our Joint Comm a while back to cut costs. We have a DOPS, FNS, a PI person who does OBQI along with the OBQI committees, team assisstants who enter orders, 485's, etc ( this will be done by the casemanagers soon) and ans...

3. Field Nurse Supervisors

   Ruth1201 replied to Ruth1201's topic in Home Health

   Thanks, sounds like pretty much what we do. The biggest problem is that the auditing seems to take up about 70% of the day. Doing anywhere from 5-12 packets a day. Freq. interrupted while trying to get a picture of what is going on with the new cts...

4. Field Nurse Supervisors

   Ruth1201 replied to Ruth1201's topic in Home Health

   We do only intermittant skilled nursing. The FNS has to do joint sup. visits with each nurse 4 times a year to assess their job performance. We are not casemanagers but have to do casemanagement and ct visits if a CM quits, until we can hire someon...

5. Field Nurse Supervisors

   Ruth1201 posted a topic in Home Health

   Wondering what the responsibilities of some of the FNS are. We are struggling at our agency. Expected to review and audit all new admits (usually about 60 pages), all recert and dc paperwork. Some doc is in the computer, some on paper. Do in-field ...

6. More Strange Baby Names

   Ruth1201 replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

   How about Animal Raven Bandit _____? Poor kid!

7. Calling all HH Nurses, roll call

   Ruth1201 replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   I work for an intermittent HHA. Since PPS we have had a 300% turnover in field staff. Each CM is expected to do a min.of 27 visits a week (sometimes turns into up to 33-34) and carry a caseload of 35-45 pts. No waivers. Ct are coming out of the h...

8. More Strange Baby Names

   Ruth1201 replied to RNLaborNurse4U's topic in Ob/Gyn

   Worked nicu 21 years and we kept a list of odd names. Worst was Nermy named after the mother's friend's cat. Also Breeze, Candy Happle, Rusty Irons, Sterling Silver, Shelisy, Jennifferr. and on and on. What are people thinking?

9. How many staff members attend a delivery??

   Ruth1201 replied to tamrnmomof4's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I work in a hosp. that has approx. 2240 del. q year. An NICU RN attends every delivery in addition to reg L&D staff and MD.