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  1. Home Health Certifications
    You need 2 years of full time experience to test for this.
    May 18
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  2. New Agency, need advice!
    I work hourly so I'm paid for all hours the same including time I spend doing paperwork. Travel is from your house to the patient then subtract the miles from your house to the office. It sounds...
    May 16
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  3. Phone reimbursmenti
    I work for a not for profit and we are offered $30 per month or a company cell phone.
    May 11
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  4. Phone reimbursmenti
    My message is intentionally long and I speak slowly so it takes forever to get through my message: Hi This is Kym Last Name at Best Home Health & Hospice. If this is an emergency please hang up...
    May 11
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  5. Pearson Vue Trick was WRONG!!!!!!!
    Congratulations Nurse, you passed!!!
    May 10
    Forum: NCLEX Discussion Forum
  6. No training on OASIS - new to home health
    All of that sounds very unprofessional. I would not be comfortable putting my license on the line. My company pays for everything: mileage, mi-fi, cell phone, laptop, and .55 per mile.
    May 7
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  7. Paid amount per visits
    That's less than half the hourly wage and per visit fees are MUCH higher than that. It was a complete waste of your time.
    May 7
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  8. Lonesome patients
    Be completely present during your visit. Thank them for their time and tell them you were happy to be able to visit with them. Be sincere. Stay as close to your full hour as possible. You can only do...
    May 7
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  9. how to locate reputable agencies as a new LPN?
    Maybe this is true in certain areas. Thankfully it isn't true in Utah. Also there isn't a mandated one year rule here either.
    May 5
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  10. how to locate reputable agencies as a new LPN?
    I disagree with awheat. When a home health company hires a newly licensed nurse they accept the responsibility to train them, the same way any facility or hospital does. What you want to do is ask...
    May 5
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  11. Start of care documentation
    That's crap. At 2-3 hours for an average SOC there's no way you van do that. The math doesn't add up.
    May 1
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  12. Praying in the work place
    Okay, everyone chant with me: Vast is the robe of liberation A formless field of benefaction I wear the Tathagata's teaching Saving all sentient beings. (Chant the above three times in a...
    Apr 26
    Forum: Nursing and Spirituality
  13. Praying in the work place
    As a Buddhist I do not believe in hope the way you define it here. Hope means I am looking to the future for my happiness instead of being present in this moment (and this one...and this one...)...
    Apr 26
    Forum: Nursing and Spirituality
  14. Praying in the work place
    There's even more research that states meditation does all those things and MORE.
    Apr 26
    Forum: Nursing and Spirituality
  15. Company car, pros and cons?
    It's a win/win for all parties. The only people not interested in our office are those with a newer car and a payment already because they do not want both payments. I could send you the contact info...
    Apr 25
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  16. Praying in the work place
    And when this white girl says she's a Buddhist it becomes the most interesting thing about her. :-) not the fact that I do 100 mile bike rides on the weekend or volunteer for everything under the...
    Apr 25
    Forum: Nursing and Spirituality
  17. Company car, pros and cons?
    That was a huge concern for us as well. You are taxed on the amount of personal miles you drive. We off set the vast majority of that with the money we pay each month for the car.
    Apr 25
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  18. Company car, pros and cons?
    It turns out to be an incredible offer. They will supply the car, full coverage insurance, gas for personal and business use (we get a credit card), and we keep the car just like it belongs to us. We...
    Apr 24
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  19. Company car, pros and cons?
    The home health agency I work for is considering getting company cars for the nurses. We have a meeting about it Wednesday and we can ask questions. I don't even know where to begin aside from "can...
    Apr 22
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  20. Thinking of giving up school nursing position for Home Health... need advice
    I am new to home care case management. This week I did four SOCs and they each took about 4 hours. That was including the initial visit with the patient and all the charting on the computer. The...
    Apr 21
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  21. Going to Facilities
    Communicate with the nurse at the facility about changes or concerns. It always irked me when the hospice nurse came in for 10 minutes, left new med orders and disappeared. I loved working with...
    Apr 14
    Forum: Hospice Nursing
  22. New to Home Health - NEED ADVICE
    Ask if you can do a ride along for a day.
    Apr 12
    Forum: Home Health Nursing
  23. When a med runs out
    I never borrow. I call the pharmacy to see if it has been ordered and when. If they have had plenty of time to get it to us (ordered 3 days ago and still not here) I ask them to bring it right away....
    Apr 9
    Forum: Geriatric Nurses / LTC Nursing
  24. On call calls
    We have a handout that we do on admit that I really like. It's called My Emergency Plan. It covers: Breathing/lungs, Heart Failure, Chest Pain and a bunch of others, 9 total. As an example: ...
    Apr 8
    Forum: Hospice Nursing
  25. Do I want to work at this agency? Questions to ask.
    What is your retention rate? How long have you worked here? (To the interviewer)
    Apr 8
    Forum: Home Health Nursing