GmaC13

GmaC13 specializes in Home Health, Hospice, Wound Care.

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1. FT salaried nurses: How many hours do you work/week?

   GmaC13 replied to paradiseboundRN's topic in Home Health

   Wow when I get on here an read these stories I realize how good I have it. I am paid hourly. We currently are not required to see a set number of pts. I do work a lot of over time but am paid handsomely for it. We usually see 3-5 pt a day but we have...

2. Getting sucked in

   GmaC13 replied to nurseby07's topic in Home Health

   I can relate to the dog story. We have been caring for this elderly couple for about a year and working hard to get them into assisted living. I am not the case manager so I only see them occasionally. The case manager had arranged for them to visit ...

3. mixing medications

   GmaC13 replied to GmaC13's topic in General Nursing

   Teresa You are correct in that the pt is not expected to live more than 6 months as a matter of fact she passed last weekend. My concern was nursing practice in general. All of the guidelines that govern how nurses handle medications say that meds ne...

4. mixing medications

   GmaC13 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I work in a small rural HH/hospice agency. Recently one of my co-workers did a visit with a hospice pt. She found that this pt had multiple bottles of medications. She apparently is on some type of automatic refill plan. The problem is she would open...

5. Most Embarassing Nursing Moments

   GmaC13 replied to Jessiedog's topic in Humor

   I once had a hospice pt whose wife was at rimes difficult to deal with. Her name was Drucilla and around the office we some how started referring to her as Cruella. I was in her home one day near halloween and had on a scrb top with Cruella on it. He...

6. What makes you love hospice?

   GmaC13 replied to Jo Dirt's topic in Hospice

   Hospice is the best nursing I have ever done. What other job allows you to go out and help people with thier dying wish. Recently I had the honor to help one of my pt get married. We actually performed a marriage ceremony in thier home. Our hospice c...

7. On Call pay???

   GmaC13 replied to horsepoor's topic in Home Health

   Where I work we do get paid what the hospital nurses do and yes I think you all should. It is a shame that HH/Hospice nurses are treated like the red headed step child. I work for a hospital that requires membership to the union and it sure helps wit...

8. Wound VAC and Granulation Tissue

   GmaC13 replied to albertsm's topic in Wound

   You are right there actually shouldn't be "excess" sponge. The sponge should be cut to fit. I am currently caring for 3 pts with wound vacs. I was trained to cut the sponge to fit the wound as close as possible and when in doubt slightly small is bet...

9. Coding and insurance authorizations

   GmaC13 posted a topic in Home Health

   I am trying to get an idea of how other agencies handle getting the ICD9 codes and insurance authorizations. I our small agency we have to depend on a coder at the hospital that really has no idea how to code for HH. She does not understand that we n...

10. What is your expected productivity and how is it measured

    GmaC13 replied to slb53's topic in Home Health

    We did have a social worker for hospice but she was very part time. She had her own pratice and was not redily availble. She saw our hospic pts (the ones that would let her come) about every 2 weeks. She recently quit to get married. They ahve hired ...

11. Straight weekend call

    GmaC13 replied to RNWithAHeart's topic in Hospice

    Where I work we share call. We each take call at least once weekly (5pm-8am) after working a full shift and expected to work a full shift the next day. We are paid $4.50/hour to be on call and 1.5 our hourly wage if called out. We are garunteed 2 hrs...

12. What is your expected productivity and how is it measured

    GmaC13 replied to slb53's topic in Home Health

    We are currently recieving multple complaints about the same subject. Realisticly our nurses are currently seeing 3-4 pt in 8hrs. Administration coninuously reports that we are well below the standard and that other agency see far more pts. Unfortuna...