katwoman7755

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1. Oregon's Death with Dignity Act

   katwoman7755 replied to Jump_Nurse's topic in Hospice

   Excellent post Marachne!! Very informative presentation of the data. Thanks! Kathryn

2. Any Southeastern Students?

   katwoman7755 replied to pihlaja's topic in Louisiana

   I'm at SELU.....graduate nursing program.

3. Straight into home health? Confused on this

   katwoman7755 replied to Brenney9101's topic in Home Health

   I personally feel you should have experience. First year as a nurse is hard enough. I know I felt like I didn't truly begin to learn to be a nurse until I actually began real life nursing. Being in the home often means you will encounter many diff...

4. Copies of original Orders

   katwoman7755 replied to AtlantaRN's topic in Hospice

   You definitely need a copy. Someone might actually need to look at those orders so that they can care for the patient. The state would also expect to see the orders on the chart if they were to come in for a survey. Actually, there's many reasons ...

5. just wondering

   katwoman7755 replied to doggielover's topic in Home Health

   I worked for an Interim agency. Although Interim is a national company, not all of the offices are part of the corporate office. Many of them are local franchises. They use Interim paperwork, P&P, etc and have to show they are giving a good st...

6. "Do I or don't I?" CLNC??

   katwoman7755 replied to rng.bar's topic in Legal

   Thanks RN1989....I do think it would be something I would immensely enjoy as all those things you mentioned that many might not like or be good at, I think I would. I guess like anything else it is just kind of scary to think of getting started much...

7. "Do I or don't I?" CLNC??

   katwoman7755 replied to rng.bar's topic in Legal

   Thank you RN1989. The things you just outlined are the exact concerns I am having about investing the money to do this program. I would love to do it and know I would do the work necessary to have success, but does that necessarily mean that I woul...

8. MSN online Schools

   katwoman7755 replied to rellco40's topic in Post Graduate

   It looked to me like it was $286.90 per credit hour. The over $600/hr, I think, would be for on campus, non resident students.

9. Excelsior's status in Louisiana

   katwoman7755 replied to flamesong's topic in Louisiana

   I did the ASn program through EC in 2001. I was an LPN. I am like 99.9% positive that in Louisiana, you must be an LPN prior to doing the EC program as far as the BON is concerned. There are some other states that will accept other disciplines doin...

10. Delta College

    katwoman7755 replied to Nurse Alissa's topic in Louisiana

    This is simply untrue....do not believe everything everyone tells you. Maybe agency RN's, but definitely not LPN's. Also, I personally know many people at the corporate level....they laughed when I told them I read this.

11. Whose responsibility

    katwoman7755 replied to grannynurse FNP student's topic in Home Health

    Sounds like someone could have seriously benefitted from an OT eval.... Kathryn

12. info re: Gentiva in FL/Hospice of Dothan, AL

    katwoman7755 replied to paulamac's topic in Home Health

    I just reread your original post and realized you were in pensacola....have you looked into Covenant hospice? That's where I worked in FWB...the corporate office is based out of pensacola. They have their regular office there where all regular fiel...

13. info re: Gentiva in FL/Hospice of Dothan, AL

    katwoman7755 replied to paulamac's topic in Home Health

    I am fairly familiar with them....I lived in FWB for 2 years....did not work for hospice of the emerald coast, but the other in town. I know they are a bigger entity in alabama, but also growing in florida. I don't think I've really heard anything ...

14. Upset!!! write up and patients marijuana

    katwoman7755 replied to RNGINA's topic in Home Health

    This conversation could have been over a long time ago if more people smoked pot.....:) As home health nurses, we go into the patient's home, we assess and we treat....but more often than not, our primary skill is to teach. I have been into many ho...

15. OBQI: Briggs® National Quality Improvement/Hospitalization Reduction Study

    katwoman7755 replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Home Health

    Thanks for the link....that whole website in general has an incredible amount of information. Kathryn