meluhn

meluhn

acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c

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About meluhn

meluhn has 16 years experience and specializes in acute rehab, med surg, LTC, peds, home c.


mom of 2, married

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  1. Do you ever plan on leaving the bedside?

    Soundofmusic, You put that so well, all management needs to read this. This is the problem with nursing everywhere. They have unrealistic expectations that we can never live up to because it is physically impossible, yet we run ourselves ragged tr...
  2. help! a confused RN

    I started in home health almost a year ago. For me it has been a catch22. I love the flexibility,hate the hours and hours of paperwork that I bring home everyday and really hate the low pay. But, it works with my lifestyle, my husband isn't milita...
  3. Jersey Shore Medical Center or Kimball Hospital

    Congrats on landing a job in these tough times. I have worked for (and did my clinical at) both of the health systems that each of these hospitals are a part of. I generally found the health system that starts with an S better than the other major o...
  4. Obtaining Urine Sample in the Home

    Recently I tried to straight cath an obese woman for ua/c&s and was unable to. I just gave the live-in a sterile cup and a peri wipe especially for clean catches and told her to do her best and call me when she got the sample. It came up nega...
  5. New Grad Home Health

    If you can tough it out for a year it will look better on your resume and you will def be prepared for home health.
  6. Calling all HH Nurses, roll call

    You are working for the wrong agency. My agency would never expect that of any nurse. That is ridiculous.
  7. What is your biggest nursing pet peeve?

    haha. it sounds stupid to me too but somewhere on one of these threads where the subject came up, someone proved that "orientate" was actually a legit word and not just someone pronouncing it wrong.
  8. Nurse Indicted in Toms River Man's Death

    Me too. Im glad she got her license back but will she ever really want to work as a nurse again? I wouldn't.
  9. How does hourly vs per visit work out?

    I am full time. I do 6 visits/day & I make a little over $200/day. The per diem RN, doing the same 6 visits would make $50/visit = $300/day. But, I get PTO and I get the same if I do 4 visits or 7 so I think it all works out in the end.
  10. Wages after being in the field for a while

    That is good for a new grad. Unfortunately, you will never get rich doing HHN (or any other kind of nsg) but it is my favorite kind of nursing so far.
  11. How well do you get along with your coworkers?

    Up until recently, I thought I had a stellar relationship with my coworkers but it seems that they are all a bunch of backstabbers after all. I am disappointed but I still need the job and so I carry on. It disgusts me and I wish that I worked with...
  12. I agree with your Aunt. This might not be a popular opinion but here goes. I have been a nurse for 17+ years. I now work in home care and love it, however; After all this time I still only make 55k/year. And more often than not through the years ...
  13. Am I Babysitting or Supervising?

    Sadly, nothing in your story or the op surprised me one bit. Long term care is a very broken system. If I ran a LTC I would pay the CNAs and nurses substantially more than the going rate and only hire and keep the best of the best. I would have pl...
  14. What do patients say that irks you?

    Eeow, Does that happen often? I would have to jump off the table and slap him, or if I was the nurse, a knee to the groin would be in order. That is so obnoxious.
  15. Scared Of Poop!!!!!!!!! Help!!!!!!!

    Just a quick poop story... I was transfering a pt from toilet to wheelchair after they had a bm when my worst nightmare came true. They started to fall and I had no choice but to lower them to the floor using my leg which I had no choice but to str...