onedayitllbeme

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1. Charting until midnight?

   onedayitllbeme replied to Grasshopper11's topic in Hospice

   It really is what you make it and what the requirements are. A visit note according to auditors should be in within 48 hours. With self discipline and a reasonable caseload and territory you should only have to chart 15 min per patient though our adm...

2. Do you have a territory?

   onedayitllbeme posted a topic in Home Health

   Hi Home Health nurses. Can you share if your home health agency assigns nurses a territory and if you know of any software programs are used to decide which nurse new patients that come on will be assigned to? The process where I work is so manual. ...

3. Getting your coworkers help : teamwork

   onedayitllbeme posted a topic in Home Health

   Hi all, i have been working in home care/hospice for about 1 year. Sometimes at a patient's house I realize I need help. Maybe I just am not having luck with foley insertion or want second opinion on wound. I usually call my peeps and I know if they ...

4. Hospice EMR

   onedayitllbeme replied to Nascar nurse's topic in Hospice

   We use iPads for consolo also. Through the website

5. Female vs male patients

   onedayitllbeme replied to qaz99's topic in Relations

   No preference , I just usually prefer not to have middle age . I like over 65 the best

6. What nursing task do you loathe???

   onedayitllbeme replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

   I don't like wound care on huge necrotic wounds, also tap water enemas are a big mess especially on patients that can't hold any tap water. But honestly if I had more time and wasn't always working on the next round of meds I definitely enjoy doing t...

7. So I kind of messed up

   onedayitllbeme replied to oopsmybad's topic in General Nursing

   I would wait it out, see if your school is worried about it. If they bring it up I guess I would explain the situation and hope for the best.

8. Nurse recruiter at Atlantic Health

   onedayitllbeme replied to marcd's topic in Job Hunt

   Just a method I use, I can usually find names of recruiters for hospitals on LinkedIn . I dont normally contact them but I might if I applied for a position online and wanted to "follow up"

9. Medication error

   onedayitllbeme replied to EDRN32's topic in Emergency

   I'm so sorry that happened. It is a reminder to me to always leave the clamp below the pump on until it is programmed and I see it dripping appropriately.

10. PICC line blood draw

    onedayitllbeme replied to greyL's topic in General Nursing

    Wow I'm shocked a place would have you waste 20ml for a blood draw. I hope there is an exception for GI bleeds and other anemias. If a patient is a reasonable stick I actually prefer peripheral blood draw in these patients to avoid the blood loss of ...

11. Weirdest/most difficult thing swallowed by a patient

    onedayitllbeme replied to ixchel's topic in General Nursing

    The inside of a instant heat pack. Turns out it is non toxic, likely for this reason. My patient was more confused than I realized! I was particularly shocked because I couldn't get him to take a bite of his dinner a few minutes before that.

12. RN - Crushing medications

    onedayitllbeme replied to DDdove's topic in Geriatric

    I generally combine vitamins at the very least.

13. RN - Crushing medications

    onedayitllbeme replied to DDdove's topic in Geriatric

    I have had CHF patients with a gtube that have between 10-15 meds at 10am. With previous suggestion we would get to half of their liquid requirement for the day by 10am with no nutrients. Here is a sample made up from my head of meds I seen scheduled...

14. What nursing task do you loathe???

    onedayitllbeme replied to richardgecko's topic in General Nursing

    Tap water enemas in bed.. Uhh, time consuming, uncomfortable for patient and a mess.

15. Hep C? end of the line?

    onedayitllbeme replied to thea22's topic in General Nursing

    Negative. I'm sure. Hang in there!