RubyRN,CHPN

RubyRN,CHPN

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About RubyRN,CHPN

RubyRN,CHPN has 15 years experience.


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  1. Hospital-based HH company vs. national HH company

    I have worked for both a small private home health agency and a large hospital based agency. I have friends who have worked at the national "chain". I prefer the hospital based agency as your...
  2. I sent you a PM so I hope you can open it.
  3. 2:21 pm by grntea 2:21 pm by grntea a member since apr '11 - from 'out in the country'. grntea has 'since florence was a probie' year(s) of nursing experience and specializes in 'legal,...
  4. Long distance trials patient?

    There are compainies in the US that do specialize in alternate site clinical trials, meaning some of the collection of data and specimens is done at home vs. the actual study site but whether or not...
  5. do nurses get employer sponsored pensionplan?

    I once worked for a company with a Taft-Harltley Union plan that contributed a specific dollar amt. for each hour we worked and there were vesting years that followed. I stayed until I was vested 100...
  6. New nurse..recently started home health. Being videotaped?

    We had a family whose spouse had a non functioning camera on top of one of the china cabinet. I spotted it and asked her if it was running during one of my intermittant visits because I needed to know...
  7. A vet tech as a nurse ?

    Funny, I remember taking my cat with feline cardiomyapathy to a very exclusive expensive kitty cat cardiologist for care and having the vet tech or nurse as she called herself berate my plan of care...
  8. Keep this forum alive: Be an entrepreneur

    Medicare typically doesn't pay for assisted living care. ALF care is usually paid privately by the individual, LTC insurance and in some cases state Medicaid programs will cover it. Check with your...
  9. Contractual Nursing/Summit Health

    I am pondering something like this and have considered Summit, I think they pay more than Mollen. Because I work contractually and have other contract jobs that have timelines for scheduling, how much...
  10. What money can get you.

    Its HIPAA and I smell a
  11. The LPN has a license and is responsible for her scope as it pertains to her license and her own individual practice. However in home health, you as the RN are responsible for the POC and that the LPN...
  12. tow admits=8 hours; two admits and a repeat visit=10 hours; two admits and a resumption of care in 11 hours, three admits is just about 12 hours. Anything more than that=JUST PLAIN
  13. Portable scanner

    Ditto..We do have scanned documents on a safety encrypted designated drive for our review only. Our EMR policy is for no personal peripherals on our computers with the exception of wireless mice only....
  14. Hi, this may be a little late as well but I sent you a private
  15. Mckesson software nightmare!

    - The print is so small I think I might go blind ***Have your computer personnel switch the font on your laptop to make your print bigger. It is possible. Some of our staff had also encountered this...