Benedina

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1. Online Nursing Schools vs Traditional Schools

   Benedina replied to canwil2082's topic in General Nursing

   OP, you definitely have the manners and grace to handle disappointments, so every best wish for your future. Those same manners would be an asset to almost any employer. But your statement that you're not planning to publish in peer-reviewed journals...

2. Typical Day For A Home Health Nurse | Life of a Nurse

   Benedina replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   One of the GREAT benefits of HH is more autonomy over your schedule. Sometimes I'm still working late at night on my charting but I genuinely love every minute of HH. (And sometimes I'm taking a long lunch with my daughter!) Good luck! Benedina

3. Interview questions

   Benedina replied to nurseontheway's topic in Home Health

   I'd save some of your questions for after their initial job offer to you. Questions that win you the job focus on THEIR needs: 1. What skills do you look for in your nurses? (Their answer is a GIANT clue as to what parts of your resume will be of mos...

4. Favorite patients...

   Benedina replied to Trisaratops's topic in Home Health

   I'm paranoid about giving away too much personal information but a respectful salute to all my 90-something patients who are active, friendly, intelligent, wise, and just plain fun to be around. They've turned my ideas about old age absolutely upside...

5. When to have the patient sign consent

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

   Paper first. We have consents bound into a book with safety information, contact information, fall risk reduction, all kinds of useful things, so it's very natural to make this the foundation of our first 15 minutes of conversation. Benedina

6. Offered a job in HH

   Benedina replied to fin0814's topic in Home Health

   This roughly matches our company's pay schedule, and I find it just fine. We have clunky software and only manage about 5 visits per day, so much less income. In our part of the world? Plenty of money to get along with. Benedina

7. Thinking of joining the HH crew (;

   Benedina replied to nurse.j.'s topic in Home Health

   Accept the M/S job, and if you get a better offer from the HH company in the same time frame, give respectful notice to the M/S job. It's a business negotiation and it's okay to jump ship for the right offer. That's not common advice around here, bu...

8. Who gets visits once a week?

   Benedina replied to Patchouli's topic in Home Health

   We accept private pay patients, too, so in addition to regular patients I have a few private patients who get once a week or biweekly med fills, weekly lab draw, etc. that Medicare won't cover. I also see some patients once per week for 1-3 weeks tow...

9. ba to bsn

   Benedina replied to hiii's topic in ADN/BSN

   It's much shorter, isn't it? This is what I did, and it made me an RN in 24 months. It could have been 18 but I elected the traditional path in order to work at a paid internship for one summer rather than take courses and graduate one semester early...

10. What's your go to outfit after work?

    Benedina replied to nurse_jess's topic in General Nursing

    Eileen Fisher. It's as comfortable as sweats while making me feel as if I'm a stylin' granny. And I'm old and can afford it. Well--I can afford it when it's on clearance or eBay or in the local thrift shops. Benedina

11. Goodbye...

    Benedina replied to Music in My Heart's topic in Relations

    I pretty much only check out AN when I'm procrastinating on projects, but I always looked for your posts. Happy nursing, and best wishes. Benedina

12. Mileage question--is this the norm??

    Benedina replied to Nurse!Nurse!Hello?'s topic in Home Health

    I think it's your hourly wage that makes the problem, personally. I'm paid per visit--roughly 150% of what you're paid per hour--and that visit time is meant to include travel time, charting time, case management time as well as visit time. In additi...

13. Grammar Police

    Benedina replied to ICURN3020's topic in Professionalism

    Bucky Badger RN took exception to my suggestion that older parents will be pleased to hear from their kids, text speak and all, and wrote: "When will that day come, just so I'm prepared. I'm in my mid 40's, my older kids are 23 and 20. All 3 genera...

14. Grammar Police

    Benedina replied to ICURN3020's topic in Professionalism

    Some of our phones are still not text friendly. I care passionately about language; my first career was in publishing. But I have a work-issued phone that requires you to punch the 7 button 4 times to get the letter "s." This is why text speak was i...

15. HH- Do you work weekends and holidays?

    Benedina replied to alnewsome's topic in Home Health

    My kiddles are grown, so I sign up for holidays often--I'd like the younger nurses to have that time with their kids, and the older nurses to have that time with their families! We generally only do emergency visits on major holidays. We're expected ...