icare4icu

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1. mileage issue/home health issues

   icare4icu replied to icare4icu's topic in Home Health

   How about starting the visit as early as you can. When my patient tells me that they are up early, I offer them an early schedule. I had a patient who gets up at 3 AM, and saw that patient at 4 Am. I had 8 patients that day and I was done by 10AM. Al...

2. mileage issue/home health issues

   icare4icu replied to icare4icu's topic in Home Health

   That's a second job doing visits and 2nd employer. I do shifts too, ICU and floor sometimes. When you do shifts you don't continue charting at home, the work is done after 12 hours or eight, while with home visit, you start charting or continue chart...

3. mileage issue/home health issues

   icare4icu replied to icare4icu's topic in Home Health

   The highest mileage I've seen so far is $0.50/mile. In AZ they pay anywhere from $0.41-0.46. I traded my suv to a pt cruiser in Feb. Now I'm wondering if I should get bus routes, lol, or tell my patients to meet me in a community center so I can see...

4. mileage issue/home health issues

   icare4icu replied to icare4icu's topic in Home Health

   Thank you for replying to my post. It's too bad that as a home health nurse we don't get paid enough. The assessment time is nothing! It's the charting, mileage,time spent while driving answering calls from the office, tracking down doctors or medica...

5. mileage issue/home health issues

   icare4icu posted a topic in Home Health

   Hello to all HH Nurses, unappreciated, overworked and underpaid. Tell me what you think about the mileage with the gas prices soaring. Let me me know about your routes and how you organize yourself in getting your visits completed. Do you work like I...

6. Nursing in the UAE

   icare4icu replied to jjjez's topic in General World

   Does anyone have good suggestions in looking for nursing jobs in Dubai? 13 yrs experience, Critical Care, Peds and Adult, PICC certified, Charge Nurse, Home Health experience,SWAT Nurse, ER, etc... Are those agencies that assist on CV development wor...

7. Employee of the month yet written up 4 insubordination and put on 60days probation.

   icare4icu replied to icare4icu's topic in Safety

   A follow up on this situation. My story is like a sopa opera scene. Got to work and no CNA working. The one and only working on nights got cancelled and they still cancelled the agency CNA. Reason? None. We had 20 patients! and 5 nurses. Everybody ha...

8. Employee of the month yet written up 4 insubordination and put on 60days probation.

   icare4icu replied to icare4icu's topic in Safety

   The prn CNA got fired, she got caught sleeping!. The other one, who was also "employee of the month", is still there. Smoothing his way. He must have some immunity of some sorts to get away with so many write ups. I am aware he's got a lot. From me h...

9. Feeling BLUE after a CODE!!!

   icare4icu replied to lisa41rn's topic in General Nursing

   Give yourself a pat on the back. You shouldn't feel embarassed by your own reactions. I've seen nurses actions worst than that. For example, one charge nurse tried to pull the crash cart without unplugging it. She pulled so hard that she fell backwar...

10. Hostile Working Environment

    icare4icu replied to CseMgr1's topic in Safety

    I emphatize with you. I had a similar situation where rumors and hearsays are encouraged by management. I got called in to discuss a gossip! When I asked my director to have a meeting with the person tattle telling, management said No. I told them th...

11. Hospital Reputations in Phoenix

    icare4icu replied to Sunlover's topic in Arizona

    Most VA have that kind of reputation. Most hospitals do too. You will hear opinions of such from most nurses too. Overall, nurses are burnt out. It is best to get the experience you need to prepare you. Be a sponge, absorb what you can, and retain th...

12. Hospital Reputations in Phoenix

    icare4icu replied to Sunlover's topic in Arizona

    Hi Dorimar, I did state the referral bonus but not for me. For them who bring in their friends. It's like 2% of what they make. Ask any other agencies, how do they get more people in, same as in the hospitals., there's the referral bonus. Besides, th...

13. Hospital Reputations in Phoenix

    icare4icu replied to Sunlover's topic in Arizona

    Hello Dorimar, I was trying to help a fello RN and giving them some insights on Registry work in Phoenix. Just letting every Nurse know that they hav e a choice. Whether they sign up with the company I referred them to, is of their own choice. The i...

14. starting a new career at phoenix arizona

    icare4icu replied to egroeg_kyut's topic in Arizona

    welcome to AZ!!!! You guys and gals. Just FYI, if you are a seasoned nurse, you get paid more than $24 somewhere else. Email me if you need info. How about in the high 30s and 40s?

15. DNR Question

    icare4icu replied to mjscan_07's topic in Safety

    There is a chemical code only no cpr no intubation. We need to specify the DNR status and have to addressed with every admission.