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CathRN has 15 years experience and specializes in everywhere.


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  1. Any Registered Nurses that are state surveyors???

    go to Florida's state page, google florida regulatory services for nursing facilities
  2. Any Registered Nurses that are state surveyors???

    www.cms.gov then appendix p, pp and q. PP is the regulations (tags), P is the survey process, and Q is the Immediate jeopardy appendix
  3. How much trouble am I in?

    My mother was a heart transplant recipient, had implanted medi-port due to being a hard stick from so many previous surgeries prior to transplantation...Anyway.......when I would take her for her checkups, the lab staff are not allowed to access any ...
  4. Aging Nurses - Where do we go?

    Try State Surveyor jobs, lots of travel, but easier on the body, but it is stressful. How about home health, hospice or MDS coordinator for a nursing facility? Weekend RN supervisor for nursing facilities, home telephonic case management, the possi...
  5. Abuse Allegations

    Actually, I would cite it as Neglect. They are neglecting to provide proper care for the resident by refusing to use the lift. They are also neglecting to follow the plan of care.
  6. Lets talk about $$$

    For the posters who didn't know what SOC was, you can go to www.cms.gov and type in OASIS, and it will take you step by step on OASIS. In Texas, there are seminars everywhere that you can go to for OASIS training as well.
  7. What is your crazy?

    Oh my, it seems like I'm OCD and share traits with most of the posters here. Even though I don't work in the hospital setting, my brain sheet is a MUST! I can't function without it. And yes, I catch a lot of "flak" about it.
  8. Impossible Family Member

    I am a new DON, previous surveyor and investigator. I'm very upfront and blunt. I also had one of "those" family members which every other sentence was "I'll move him (her husband who was very pleasantly confused Alzheimer's) to another facility. ...
  9. Federal Regulations for Nursing Homes

    www.cms.gov. That will take you to the main webpage. On the right upper side there is a search box. There you can type in Appendix P, which is the survey process - what the surveyors look at and why; Appendix PP which is the tags; and Appendix Q w...
  10. Federal Regulations for Nursing Homes

    As a new DON and former surveyor, www.cms.gov. I saved mine to my Ipad under IBooks. Download appendix PP (the regulations), appendix P (the survey process), and appendix Q (the Immediate Jeopardy guidelines). In the regulatory (appendix PP), the ...
  11. Abuse Allegations

    As a state/federal investigator, I have seen this all too often. And yes, I do call IJ's when this occurs.
  12. Personality At Work vs. At Home

    Were we separated at birth?
  13. Bending and Breaking the Rules in Nursing

    I forgot to add that I did speak with the attending physician and he said to go for it! He told me years later that he appreciated they way I treated his patients, that his patients and/or family would tell him that they enjoyed having me as their n...
  14. Bending and Breaking the Rules in Nursing

    I have "bent" the dietary rules for my patients in the past as well. On my unit in the hospital we regularly received overflow oncology patients. I did get written up several times and many verbal warnings, but if one of my oncology patients reques...
  15. Coffee Is My Medicine

    LOL SummitAP, the same goes for me. "I have some blood in my caffeine stream." So true.