Bee_home care replied to Bee_home care's topic in HIPAA
So a little more stuff I met with my former boss's supervisor (I will call him Bill) , my new supervisor and HR rep today. Several other nurses and I believe that "Bill" was involved in the coverup of forged documents several months ago and that h...
Bee_home care replied to Bee_home care's topic in HIPAA
Thanks everyone I am reassured that I did not break HIPAA regs. My attorney believes this is a retaliatory action by my employer as some of you mentioned and says that I am protected under Whistleblower law. Other nurses who I work with also ...
I am being accused by my employer that I violated HIPAA. I filed a complaint with Dept of Public Health/Board of Nursing against my previous boss, who has been terminated, as she was most likely (which is why the complaint was filed) forging nurses s...
Bee_home care replied to Bee_home care's topic in General Nursing
I found my "signature" forged on a document and many more of other nurses "signatures." Someone please respond so I know that at least someone has read this.
HELP I have become aware and have copies of documents that my boss, the director of our division, has forged. She has signed another nurses name to 2 documents (med list and nursing assessment) and altered a nursing assessment already signed by anoth...
HELP I have become aware and have copies of documents that my boss, the director of our division, has forged. She has signed another nurses name to 2 documents (med list and nursing assessment) and altered a nursing assessment already signed by anoth...
I wonder how many of you have had patients with tactile hallucinations. I have been in psych nursing for several years and have only seen 1 case, which I now have as a patient. I am a psych home care nurse. Any advice on how to help me talk to him a...
Bee_home care replied to beauty912's topic in Psychiatric
I would suggest psych nursing experience first, before even applying to psych NP schools. I would highly recommend this because you will find out if you really like psych nursing before spending lots of time and money on a degree you don't want to u...
Bee_home care replied to Girlygirl69's topic in Psychiatric
I would suggest doing inpatient psych nursing and then maybe outpatient psychiatric clinic type nursing or psych home care. Getting a sense of psych nursing is important and you may decide it is not for you then you haven't wasted a lot of time and ...
I work for a nonprofit home care agency that is considering going from paying an hourly rate for RN Case Managers to per visit pay. I don't exactly know what this means. I make less than $25/hour at this time. I get reimbursed for mileage. The per di...
Bee_home care replied to tinaj191's topic in Home Health
I also agree with burlshoe114 I had 2 years med surg experience right out of school and learned more than the 4 years of nursing school in the first 6 months. I work full time as a home care nurse and would NEVER recommend a new grad doing home car...
Bee_home care replied to Burlshoe114's topic in Home Health
burlshoe114 I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE SAYING and know how it feels too and it is SOOOO frustrating I work for an agency that does similar stuff. I hate having to admit or discharge a pt that is NOT SAFE TO BE AT HOME!!! My understanding is that it ...