OkieeRN

OkieeRN has 1 years experience and specializes in Home Health/Peds PACU.

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1. How many do you Case Manage in a Certified Home Health Agency?

   OkieeRN replied to fawnsternurse's topic in Home Health

   I have hear of 21st but do not work for them. My agency is relatively small, we are a close knit group :)

2. Elderly forgetful diabetic, need advice on improving complaince

   OkieeRN replied to Keld401's topic in Home Health

   The problem with alarms is that they don't always align with eating. Medicare does pay long term if the pt is unable to draw up or administer reliably his/her own insulin and there is no willing/able caregiver available. It has to be documented on ev...

3. How many do you Case Manage in a Certified Home Health Agency?

   OkieeRN replied to fawnsternurse's topic in Home Health

   Idk if there are any rules, perhaps there are guidelines through ANCC for certified case managers but I am not sure. I can say that at my last job I carried 40-45 patients on my caseload and saw them all for all oasis visits plus the less stable ones...

4. 60 day summary & home health aide services!

   OkieeRN replied to nurse955's topic in Home Health

   I consider them the same. If I write a d/c summary upon d/c I do not write a 60 day summary. The D/c summary replace it.

5. Elderly forgetful diabetic, need advice on improving complaince

   OkieeRN replied to Keld401's topic in Home Health

   It sounds like he needs to be a daily insulin pt if he and/or his family cannot consistently give him the shots. He clearly is not able to pull up the insulin on his own and forgets with the prefilled syringes. If he doesn't have children or church f...

6. Kindly answer me any surgical nurse please...

   OkieeRN replied to kameera's topic in Med-Surg

   I would finish the dressing. It is not worth leaving a sterile dressing change open to air while seeing what another pt needs. That pt could end up with an infx. I would also reply that it is important to hourly round on all my pts so that they have ...

7. Cant decide if should start out as LPN or go RN?

   OkieeRN replied to jeepngrl's topic in Oklahoma

   I did OU's RN to BSN and was in class with several LPN's that were getting their BSN's as well, bypassing the traditional route of LPN to ADN to BSN. since you have to be an LPN for a year before starting OU's program idk of its a benefit or not... F...

8. What was your experience in school?

   OkieeRN replied to laski's topic in General Students

   I earned an A.S. in diversified studies while working on my prereqs for my ADN program. So when I started nursing school full time all I had to focus on (school wise) was school. That said, I also was married with two children and worked full time. I...

9. How physical is home health?

   OkieeRN replied to Caffeine_IV's topic in Home Health

   You may want to consider desk case management in home health. It isn't bad on the back (as long as sitting doesn't bother you).

10. On Call and Weekend requirements

    OkieeRN replied to JenRN123's topic in Home Health

    That is not enough pay for on call. I am paid a base salary and my on call pay is in addition to the salary. $150.00/weekend to be on call and $65-$85/visit for resumption/recert/SOC. I would look elsewhere especially since you are the bread winner. ...

11. What's the difference between Home Health Case Manager-RN and Visiting Nurse-RN?

    OkieeRN replied to RN276's topic in Home Health

    I have been a field nurse case manager, a case manager that did all OASIS visits and had an assigned LPN conduct all regular SNV's, and an in-office case manager (with no hands on pt care), with the latter being my current role. The pay I received wh...

12. Old Nursing Books

    OkieeRN replied to newbienurse2011's topic in New Nurse

    I saved mine from my BSN program because I didn't save them from my ADN program and wished I had... I have referenced the ones I saved. Congrats on becoming a nurse!!!

13. New nurse in PACU??

    OkieeRN replied to sungrl01's topic in PACU

    I was a nurse 6 months when hired in PACU. Maybe it depends on the facility but our recovery room nurses are AMAZING! I have learned so much from them, and the anesthesiologists, and the CRNA's... Being in one large room is good for multiple reasons ...

14. Need reassurance

    OkieeRN replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in Home Health

    If mom lifts him, why not ask her to help you do a two person transfer?

15. Would you ever own a motorcycle? YES or NO?

    OkieeRN replied to borinick1492's topic in General Nursing

    We are about to buy a trike!! SUPER excited!!!!!