KittyLovinRN

KittyLovinRN has 5 years experience and specializes in Pulmonary, Lung Transplant, Med/Surg.

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1. Anyone ever said something completely dumb because they were really nervous?

   KittyLovinRN replied to ICURN3020's topic in General Nursing

   I always think this too!! Have to make my brain do a double take :-)

2. Why can't we tell pts/families we're understaffed?

   KittyLovinRN replied to delphine22's topic in Professionalism

   Same thing with home care. Patients don't get the number of visits they were told they'd get that week. I'm the one who gets blamed even though I don't make the visit schedule but the office makes no effort to get in contact to explain missed visits....

3. Finding your place in nursing

   KittyLovinRN replied to medic978's topic in General Nursing

   I worked with lung transplants out of nursing school for 18 months then went to an ICU stepdown for two years. I knew I needed out of the hospital. I found home care nursing and have never loved a job so much. So basically three jobs and 3.5 years t...

4. Oasis M1342

   KittyLovinRN replied to jhdoublin's topic in Home Health

   P.S. If it's been 30 days since the actual surgery (i.e. if the patient went to rehab for long period of time after hospital) then we're told to put "New Epith"...I guess a 30 day old incision (WNL) is then considered healed.

5. Oasis M1342

   KittyLovinRN replied to jhdoublin's topic in Home Health

   Our office requests the same documentation for knees/hips/surgical incisions ... EVERYTHING at a SOC is considered non-healing. Why are you uncomfortable with this? It's just baseline documentation. We're given the same rationale...need to see som...

6. Medicare Charting Guidelines for HH

   KittyLovinRN replied to roach930's topic in Home Health

   Our charting (all computerized) is to be locked down and transmitted by midnight after the visit was performed. Granted there are times where we slack and do it the next day but it is the expectation that it's done by midnight.

7. Working too close to home I think!

   KittyLovinRN posted a topic in Home Health

   Hi all! I'm a home care nurse in a neighboring community from where I live. Turns out one of my patient's is the brother of my MIL neighbor, who both live down the street from me. The sister figured it out when she saw my name on the patient's folder...

8. Swabcaps

   KittyLovinRN replied to student_nurse101's topic in General Nursing

   For the short period of time we used them (they showed no significant improvement in our CLAB rates) we only put them on the PICC/Subclavian/Port caps, I never saw them used on the actual IV tubing but that was just what I saw.

9. What Baffles You?

   KittyLovinRN replied to GundeRN's topic in General Nursing

   I can assure you I do not have psych issues. I can also nearly guarantee that physician has never had such severe pain where you'd be okay with someone hitting you over the head with a brick to knock you out. Nobody should be judging anybody's pain, ...

10. What Baffles You?

    KittyLovinRN replied to GundeRN's topic in General Nursing

    I'll break the streak I started :) When I was still working in the hospital we had a woman who's son was totally creepy. Only child and just totally creepy with how he behaved around his mother. She was very, very ill/late disease state and he just...

11. What Baffles You?

    KittyLovinRN replied to GundeRN's topic in General Nursing

    Wow....

12. What Baffles You?

    KittyLovinRN replied to GundeRN's topic in General Nursing

    While I agree with 99% of the complaints here I have to say some pain truly IS off the charts. Kidney stone pain. I've said 12/10 more than once to get my point across. Also has an ER physician question my pain because I didn't look in pain. At that...

13. What shoes do you wear?

    KittyLovinRN replied to KittyLovinRN's topic in Home Health

    Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using allnurses.com

14. does anyne else miss the hospital?

    KittyLovinRN replied to Cathyd241's topic in Home Health

    Never looked back the year I've been in home care and never will. But it's okay that you don't like it, not every section is your niche, good luck with your re-entry! Sent from my iPhone using allnurses.com

15. What shoes do you wear?

    KittyLovinRN posted a topic in Home Health

    Forgive me if this has already been talked about but I did a brief search and could not find anything I was looking for. What brand of sneakers do you wear? I've never worn through shoes like I do with this job!