MidwestMaude RN

MidwestMaude has 9 years experience as a RN and specializes in Radiation Oncology.

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1. HH vs Hospice Documentation

   MidwestMaude replied to MidwestMaude's topic in Hospice

   Thank you, vampiregirl! I truly appreciate all the tips!

2. HH vs Hospice Documentation

   MidwestMaude replied to MidwestMaude's topic in Hospice

   Thank you! That is beyond helpful and makes me so happy. I very much want to do hospice but was so nervous the documentation would be like home health. I agree 100% that the OASIS requirements did not contribute to patient care in the least and were ...

3. HH vs Hospice Documentation

   MidwestMaude posted a topic in Hospice

   Hello all, I'm an oncology nurse who has felt a pull towards hospice nursing for quite awhile. I have worked home health in the past and my main issue with that was the insane documentation requirements through oasis. What are documentation req...

4. Radiation Oncology

   MidwestMaude replied to Swellz's topic in Oncology

   Hello, I'm an outpatient radiation nurse in a hospital. We do all education (initial and final instructions), see each patient currently on treatment with the MD for their weekly "OTV - on treatment visit", see any patient on treatment who request to...

5. Illinois Agencies

   MidwestMaude posted a topic in Home Health

   Hello, I'm currently looking to make the transition into Home Health, but know very little about what agencies are good to work for in my area. I'm currently looking at ones associated with hospitals (Loyola/Trinity, Advocate, etc). Anyone in the Chi...

6. What do you like about being a research nurse?

   MidwestMaude replied to AwayWeGo's topic in Research

   Texcat - We are almost in the exact same boat! I did research for 8 years before nursing school and also never planned on doing bedside, but got sucked into the idea that as a new grad you have to do bedside. I got a job out of school in the ICU an...

7. Any clinical research nurses out there?

   MidwestMaude replied to Researchnurse's topic in Research

   Hi everyone, I'm a new nurse with 8 years of both preventative medicine and clinical research experience. I graduated with my BSN in December of 2010 and took a job as an ICU nurse, but missed research so much that I immediately started looking for ...