cuhome

cuhome

hospice and home health

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About cuhome

cuhome has 18 years experience and specializes in hospice and home health.


18 yrs as home and facility setting hospice nurse, team coordinator

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  1. Could Obamacare cause a shortage in nursing again

    Please explain rationale on this "belief". Lay it out, with specific cause and effect, so I can follow your reasoning. Your prediction is a simply a statement of opinion, without rationale.
  2. Extremely Overweight Nurses

    Makes me wonder who designs those "IQ" tests...
  3. Extremely Overweight Nurses

    Until science understands obesity better, I choose to avoid judgments about people afflicted with this terrible medical condition. There's a socially accepted tendency to blame the victim and site "choice" as the cause of obesity. Perhaps this is w...
  4. Death with Dignity in Hospice Setting

    Thanks, tewdles and JeanMarie, for responding to this. I think this is an important issue, and it will become of even greater importance to more individuals as time goes on. Please encourage your friends/co-workers to get involved in this discussio...
  5. Death with Dignity in Hospice Setting

    The Death with Dignity Act is also known by some as Right to Die Act. It gives a patient who is terminally ill the right to seek assistance from a medical doctor to die. The Washington state act builds in requirements and safeguards, as follows: Th...
  6. I previously worked for a religiously-based hospice, which was connected to a national religious organization with many hospitals and clinics across the US. When the Death with Dignity laws passed in my state, the entire hospice staff was required t...
  7. Need suggestions for keeping license current

    Out of work for 3 years due to spinal surgeries... state licensure requirements changed, in the meantime, so in 2014 I need to show that I've put in 587 hours of actual nursing practice in the preceding 3 years. Am currently providing care for my da...
  8. If you're thinking of moving to home health, be sure it's a unionized job or hourly pay. Many home health jobs pay on a salaried basis, for a reason--it's beneficial to the agency, because they don't have to pay you overtime! You can end up working ...
  9. Retirement in the nursing field.

    I value the young, new grad nurses for their "cutting edge" education... they've just graduated and have the most current information, which, as a 62-year old nurse, is invaluable to me! I love to consult with the newer grads! At the other end of t...
  10. If you're thinking of moving to home health, be sure it's a unionized job or hourly pay. Many home health jobs pay on a salaried basis, for a reason--you can end up working many more than 40 hours per week, with no overtime pay. I don't know if thi...
  11. Questions about healthcare administration

    I've been a home health/hospice nurse for about 18 years. I'm an ADN nurse. You don't need your BSN to get into the field, and there is a higher demand than you might think. Many home health RNs (including hospice) have their ADNs only, and they s...
  12. Returning to nursing after one year away

    Hi and Help! I'm an ADN, 18 yrs experience mainly in hospice, both home and facility setting, lots of care coordination, CNA supervision, care plan responsibility, bi-weekly team report my responsibility. Past 18 months have been recovering from med...