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

   lioneliz replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   Funny thing happened today...I was just wrapping up a visit (pt assessment caregive teaching wound care & dressing for a patient with a tunneling abdominal wound) when she told me that her husband couldn't understand why the HH staff always chec...

2. What are some of the strangest situations you have gotten into in home health

   lioneliz replied to lioneliz's topic in Home Health

   Hey these are great stories! It is nice to know someone out there understands and has been through some of the same situations, (and some I hope I never experience. Keep em coming.

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

   lioneliz replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   This was not really a typical event in a typical day in HH, but I just had to vent a little. A man came by the office the other day and asked about hiring someone to help bathe his mother. He told me his brother and he had been assisting mom to bathe...

4. Worn Thin From the Paperwork

   lioneliz replied to nightingale's topic in Home Health

   i guess, overall, i am dissapointed in myself; the last three intakes that i took starting 3-22-04 are not complete yet... i hope to do the 485's this afternoon. do the nurses usually do the 485's elsewhere? hey no wonder you are having a hard time ...

5. What are some of the strangest situations you have gotten into in home health

   lioneliz posted a topic in Home Health

   What are some of the strangest wildest kookiest ect. situations you have found yourself in in the home health setting. I would love to hear your stories. I know in nursing school I would have never imagined or belived some of the situations I get int...

6. The Business of Home Health

   lioneliz replied to erroridiot's topic in Home Health

   All patients (home health patients or otherwise) have the RIGHT to participate in planning thier care and to accecpt or refuse care. They have this right regardless of how much it inconvenices the home health agency. I called my supervisor and was ...

7. Problems at Home.....

   lioneliz replied to lvn2004's topic in General Nursing

   Yes school is stressful. Yes school leaves you tired and irritable (that goes for your mate and children also). Yes this will pass. As for your mariage???? I don't know. I hope you guys make it work! I can rember feeling like you do right now. It was...

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

   lioneliz replied to hoolahan's topic in Home Health

   Just another typical day in home health. I drove 20 miles to my first patient, a crabby old gent with CAD A-fib S/P 3 vessel CABG has had numerous med changes recently. Called his home before I left the office, but when I got there he went to the bat...

9. patient lingo...

   lioneliz replied to athomas91's topic in Emergency

   A nurse I used to work with had hand written a list of S&S for a pt's dtr-caregiver to report to the home health nurse. She left it in the home for the dtr to read as she wasn't there at the time. The next nurse that visited could tell the dtr wa...

10. RN Difference

    lioneliz replied to aznksswt517's topic in General Nursing

    A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet or so the saying goes. The same goes for RN's. Diploma programs were generally run by hospitals, and had a large amount of hands on nursing experience. ADN programs had some theory and some general ...

11. Things Patients Have Taught Me NOT To Do

    lioneliz replied to Trixxy's topic in Humor

    If you are a tottering octogenerian, and weigh 89 pounds do not open your storm door if the wind is gusting 50 to 60 miles/hr...you will fall down and go boom. Also if you are an octogenerian (don't know what it is about those 80somethings) and prone...

12. Am I Stupid Or What?

    lioneliz replied to lioneliz's topic in Home Health

    There aren't any agencies in our town, but there are other agencies with service areas that overlap into ours, one in particular, a rather large one, is definitely in compitition for patients in any area as well as ours. I wonder why they (the hospit...

13. Patients and medical terminology....What the heck?!?!

    lioneliz replied to Big Bab's's topic in General Nursing

    Here are a few I have heard: * I am nearly blind, you know I have that imaculate degeneration. *My baby's nose is constipated. * I didn't take may latex today. (meaning lasix) * What do ya mean I have keystones in my urine? (meaning ketones) *...

14. Am I Stupid Or What?

    lioneliz posted a topic in Home Health

    Am I stupid or what? I keep thinking that the "powers that be" over the agency I work with will someday wake up and take an intrest in their home health agency (a small hospital based agency that serves a rural area). The staff has dwindled down to 1...

15. Just a fun thread - Cleanest bathrooms on the road?

    lioneliz replied to lyv33's topic in Home Health

    you can usually count on the county court house and banks to have clean restrooms...there are no McDonalds etc. in the small towns i go to