HeadingWest

HeadingWest

Home Health, Med-Surg, Telemetry

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HeadingWest has 3 years experience and specializes in Home Health, Med-Surg, Telemetry.


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  1. ETOH withdrawal, CIWA, and transfer to the ICU.

    Except that I still had to document her last bit of IV intake, my communication with the attending, and write a note regarding transfer/report which included reviewing her CIWA scores to ensure an accurate note. Thanks for intentionally missing the p...
  2. I work on a med-surg/tele floor that gets a fair number of ETOH withdrawal patients. Today I took care of a woman that had been sober 9 months before starting a 2 week bender prior to admission. She was up to a liter of vodka a day prior to going to ...
  3. New Grad - Is HH nursing difficult to get out of?

    I'm curious which bedside skills you are worried about losing? I didn't do any trach care (no vents at my agency) or any NG placement/removal in home health, but I got to use pretty much everything else I learned in school. There were regular foley c...
  4. Work Cell?

    I can also vouch for google voice. I was given a monthly stipend for my cell phone and just set up google voice on my android. My google voice number was for everything work related which kept my personal number safe. The ability to set up multiple v...
  5. Medication Storage/tracking

    I just started as the nurse for a small DD agency (for both residential and day program). We have 60ish people coming to day program M-F and 35 in residential with a good deal of overlap between the two. My current concern is the storage and tracking...
  6. Lets talk about $$$

    1. Denver Metro 2. $23.50/hr for meetings, $47 for regular visits, $57 for evals/recerts/resumptions/agency discharge, $85 for opens, $2/hr on call, $0.48/mile minus to/from first/last visit 3. No benefits 4. I've got an ipad rather than the portable...
  7. I agree, and that is what am doing now. I was told specifically by my case manager that I needed to add visits for med management and that is what I had an issue with. I'm still learning how everything works in home health and talked through the issu...
  8. I recently switched agencies, and I am going on two months at the new one. Initially everything about the new agency was better, but cracks are starting to appear. I was added on to take care of 3 little stage 2 decubs in a pt's gluteal cleft. The p...
  9. The love of home health

    If you don't mind me jumping into the conversation I would be happy to answer some questions. I'm new ADN grad working in home health. Home health isn't my preferred specialty, but the agency I work for is the only place to offer me a job so far. I a...
  10. When it rains, it pours.

    Thanks for the advice. It would be near impossible to schedule both jobs at the same time. The VA jobs are supposed to be a mix of 8's and 12's, and the home health is however I schedule visits along with required grand rounds (bi-monthly), case conf...
  11. When it rains, it pours.

    I graduated in May of this year, but was unable to take boards for a few months since I was relocating across the country. I took (and passed) boards in August and have been licensed for about 2 months now. I have been applying to for anything and ev...
  12. Are you a new grad?

    Is anyone else running into this question when applying for jobs? Every hospital in my area seems to have a different definition of what a constitutes a new grad. I've run into anything from 6-18 months, and how much your experience counts depends o...
  13. Confused on EMT-B?????

    I am an EMT-B for a private company in the Western burbs. Our basics start out around $9/hr. We put up ambulances for 10, 12, 13, and 24 hour shifts. On a BLS rig you can expect to do lots of discharges, dialysis transports, and the occasional emerge...