camoflower

camoflower

Ortho/Peds/MedSURG/LTC

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camoflower specializes in Ortho/Peds/MedSURG/LTC.


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  1. Home Health Nurses -What's in your bag?

    We carry a tackle box with lab equipment. (the day a lab is due the supplies are on the cart for pick up, pkg'd with pts name) Kerlix/abd pads/ 4x4 normal saline tape cath kit must be on a barrier, sealed, in date we have to have a contamination pack...
  2. I think this might be illegal!

    Its all about safety. Can they safely ambulate without stand by assistance at all times?You can mark the Oasis lower, and they can get better in a couple of days if they will work on their safety awareness- that you TEACH. We can go back as far as 24...
  3. Car insurance for home health

    Worse case scenario; in a wreck, someone dies, they see your badge......hospital gets drug into a lawsuit. Unless it was before your clock in. Its for the agency you work for.
  4. I love home health. I am single. I can not see myself in this field with children, nor, if I did not have a very supportive husband. I have seen husbands bring in the equipment, bag, computer and phone verbalizing very sternly "she will not be com...
  5. Why do you like home care? What are the advantages?

    Although nurses have = precious Limited time. You must address, by calling physicians, any red flags, or issues. Good doctors never let home health nurses wait for answers. I have one that I know who tells his staff to NOT to let us hang up without o...
  6. Why do you like home care? What are the advantages?

    I work, finally, with management that shows appreciation every single chance they possibly can. I work with a really good group of nurses in home health...the sweet nurses. There is not a Debbie Downer in the entire bunch...and I love, love, love tha...
  7. New to HH, Happy but nervous.......

    Of course its "norm" to feel nervous about a job you expect to do well at. My imagination makes every patient much worse than they really are prior to seeing them for the 1st time. You know you are going to be pretty much alone in the field. Murphy's...
  8. 1 year out, no job. Throw in the towel?

    My "How to land a job within a hospital" story - I spent days sending out applications to anyone and everyone I possibly could:bugeyes:. I put a small photo of me and my kids on one resume :nurse:and was called from five different facilities. Then ab...
  9. They get pharmacy to show you because they won't be able to do it "perfectly" you will see it so they get someone else to show you..PLEASE...don't shudder be brave. The "friends" on the floor have fought their fears of the lowly beast. I have had m...
  10. Breaking through the cliques

    Yes, I go back to one of my stories..whereas a doctor yelled at me and I was angered for weeks at him. I thought we got along on the floor. His odd behavior reinforced, to me, the reason why most nurses HATED him. I have a son in pre-med, has NO so...
  11. Breaking through the cliques

    oh hoe hoe! describing my first job. Lesson Learned: if they don't answer your questions...they don't KNOW the answer. So don't ask questions. 1. it makes you look lazy and ignorant 2. puts them on the spot because they are lazy and ignorant and don'...
  12. Gen X,Gen Y,baby boomers in the work place

    So funny a co-workers "message received BONG de la BING" went off at work today and the Nurse Manager got on to her pretty heavy reminding her (again) about the cell phone rules (and here we are talking about it). Rules are rules - follow the rules, ...
  13. problems with "too many chiefs" and etc in my LTC fac

    If you leave on good terms, she may call you back. It happens around here. Stay and take the invisible route. She obviously doesn't need any more input - I'm sure everyone's squawking away in her office. Too many chiefs is right! But you could stay a...
  14. Gen X,Gen Y,baby boomers in the work place

    I worked on a floor, where they would not hire another nurse over 60, but had one 59 year old on the floor, that had worked there 8 years, that was "in" with the floor manager and although everyone complained that she did not do her work, ex: ampute...
  15. Demeaned by a Doctor

    Hear Ye Hear Ye...Once a doctor yelled at me, I yelled back at him...my patient was asked and he refused pain meds over and over..but when the doctor asked of course he was "hurtin really bad" I had another doctor raise his hand and tell me "DO NOT ...