KountryPrincess

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  1. Help!! How to document clinical info narrative

    Everyon at our agency charts narrative differently. Most nurses use Word templates, especially for revisits. We are required to use templates to document wounds and ostomies. Remember that your OASIS and other flow charting contains a lot of assessme...
  2. New Oncology Intern RN

    If I can add one thing to that wonderful post....you *will* get close to your patients, it is hard not to, and it is one of the benefits of being in Onc. Never forget that you are not thier friend, you are their *nurse*. You must be their advocate, ...
  3. How valuable is your OCN?

    I got my OCN years ago when I worked in onc and the test was hard, but I did do really well on it, and I was proud to add it to my educational background. BTW, I have never belonged to ONS and still get all their newsletters etc. even though I haven'...
  4. Question about GBM treatments?

    Great post Kel.....very informative.
  5. New Nurse 1 year in...should I change floors?

    I would move to med onc. That is the type of floor I started on as a student for a year and then as an RN for the next five years. I loved it, and you will probably find a great group of nurses up there. On my floor we were very supportive of each ot...
  6. Home health SN Safety

    Lol.....this topic reminds me of when I used to take call and sometimes got called out in the middle of the night and never knew exactly what I was heading into. I always took my 110lb Rottweiler with me in the car.....just in case :)
  7. Week one of orientation done

    With all your experience I am sure you would be an asset to any agency. My agency did not exactly throw me too the wolves, but when I started I was seeing some pts on my own within a week or so. However, they started with easier pts that I had alread...
  8. Thinking of doing HH per diem but...

    I would never work at a place that pays by the visit. When you have used your time, energy, wear and tear on your car, effort and expertise dealing with the pt, doc and family, amd the pt does not open for some reason, and you don't get paid, then it...
  9. Now you all are making me scared!

    I agree with getting more hospital experience, I would aim for at least 2-3 years acute care experience. People who do homecare without that experience will tell you they do fine, but they do not know how they would perform differently if they had th...
  10. Home Health IVs w/new grad nurse

    Depends on the pt. If it is a pediatric pt with a pediport and an emaciated sunken contracted upper torso and the thing rolls, yeah.....you can miss. Really though, I would say in gerenal, on 99% of pts, portacath access is a snap compared to periphe...
  11. Thinking about making the switch to home health...

    I agree with the above poster....pay by the hour is waaay better. When you have spent 30 minutes round trip driving to a pts house, another 45 sorting them out and then do not get paid for any of it because they NTU(not taken up), you will not be hap...
  12. Less than 2 years as nurse and back probs force change

    How about home care? Think about it a little and see if it might be for you. A little more acute care experience would be preferable, but I am seeing that new grads are getting jobs in some agencies, and you are more experienced than that. I have chr...
  13. Documentation altering/tampering...Is this the norm???

    This does not sound like an ethical agency. I have been in HH for 10+ years with the same agency, and my responses would *never* be changed by anyone, not even my director, without my consent. I am called upon occasionally to defend Oasis answers, bu...
  14. The love of home health

    Hi guys.....I am glad to see the interest in home care, but as someone mentioned, I feel that you need 2-3 years of acute experience, preferably more, before coming to home care. I noticed that the above poster has paramedic/emergency type experience...
  15. I flunked out of clinical today..

    This sounds crazy. I am making the assumption this was in a hospital room....no clock in there, what the heck?I forget my darn watch half the time, I think you had a clever solution to use the cell. I am assuming that cells are probably banned in cli...