nurseinmo

nurseinmo

Psych, LTC, Home Health

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About nurseinmo

nurseinmo has 8 years experience and specializes in Psych, LTC, Home Health.


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  1. On-call hospice nurse

    jeannepaul what is the census of the hospice you work for? I just interviewed for a job that sounds a lot like what you are doing. I was told they would pay an hourly/salaried rate for the time and a per visit "bonus". The current census is 47. W...
  2. Worried about tomorrow

    I have seen this happen as well. I think sometimes when those "other" hospice agencies are trying to build in a new area they go above and beyond what they would normally provide to try to boost their reputation if you know what I mean. I am curren...
  3. 485 question

  4. 485 question

    That's what we have been trying to tell her!! I thought maybe something had changed as far as the 485 was concerned; I think she is just mis understanding what the surveyor meant. There is no talking to this woman, I have tried and it has just gotte...
  5. 485 question

    I have worked for the same HH agency (hospital based) for 2 years now. In that time we have had 6 directors... we recently had a survey that apparently didn't go like they thought it should. One of the issues that was brought up was our 485's. Now...
  6. Home Health!! Need Advice!!!!

    My situation was a little different. As a new grad, I did about 3 months of med surg nights and then I worked in a long term care facility for the developmentally disabled, the same facility I had worked at as an aide and an LPN. With about one yea...
  7. LPN's being on call

    Until recently our LPN was on call as well, with an RN back up in case of something outside of her scope. She is the only one of us who doesn't live in town and several times would call whoever her backup was and have them make the visit so she didn...
  8. 30 day medicaid summary?

    Yes the ones I am thinking of are Medicaid only patients. we only do initial, 60 day, and d/c summaries for the Medicare patients. Apparently the story goes that it was sort of a "billing" thing that they weren't paying so the agency would send alo...
  9. 30 day medicaid summary?

    Thank you so much! I have looked everywhere and have yet to find anything that says this is required but wanted to see if it was something I was missing.
  10. 30 day medicaid summary?

    Does anyone know anything about doing 30 day summaries for medicaid? I am fairly new to HH and was recently told I need to go back and do 30 day summaries on all my mcd patients....billing says that we don't need them anymore but I want to be sure. ...
  11. Home Health Teaching Guides-HELP!!

    Here is one with several useful things on Diabetes.... Diabetes Education and Research Center - Teaching Materials
  12. Scrubs or Street Clothes

    We are allowed to wear either scrubs or street clothes but no jeans. I do know of another agency that does allow denim but not blue...they are allowed to wear scrubs if they wish as well. I do genearally wear scrubs unless I go out after hours or I...
  13. Well baby visits

    THANK YOU!! That does help quite a bit actually. I wish they would let us use the paper forms for ours, esp since we don't do OASIS on infants and we usually don't see the moms as patients. The last time the people from this software company was he...
  14. Well baby visits

    We have just gone through some software changes and we are a very small agency and none of us are really "baby nurses" if ya know what I mean.. anyway, my question is, what are "must chart" things for a well baby visit? I am going to have to rebuild...
  15. Is it possible . . .

    Wanna move to "middle of nowhere" MO? We have a good agency as well. Just filled the open position but I don't look for this one to last long based on a lot of what she said today. :) The good ones are out there! :)