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It's a challenge for you and you are letting your mind play games with you. Keep trying, when you have failed go get help, but once you finally tackle it a few times in a row you will have your...

Does your company do annual reviews? Every nurse should get a 90 day review to just let you know how you are fitting in with the new job and what you may need to work on. Most jobs don't offer a...

I would add any home enviorment issues, safety in home issues, barriers to education and learning, if the patient has and can afford all medications... but that's a a great narative you wrote!

That pay seems a little low to me too. Especially with your experience. Do you live in the Charlotte area? Are you aware that housing costs in Charlotte are one of the most expensive in NC?

First of all how does he transfer? Is he totally bed bound or does he get up into a chair/device? How does he get around? How long can he tolerate being up in that device? Does he get sob? Does...

The education, in this instance, would really not affect my decision. If both of them have "relatively" the same educational experience then I would decide who to hire based on the interview. I...

As a nurse of 25 years.... I want to wish you the best. My first 5 years of nursing was peds oncology and PICU. I chose that, and it was a great learning experience. One thing that I really didn't...

Lack of preparation on their part, Does NOT constitute and emergency on your part. I have been in home health for 20 years. 10 of those years was coastal nursing. I remember being in the office...

I started out 25 years ago in Peds and PICU. I worked there for 5 years. When I relocated to another area that did not have Peds, unless it was a LONG commute, I decided to do adult Med-Surg for a...

Where I work, we use the NS that comes in 100ml bottles instead of those big 500-1000 ml bottles for wound care etc. If the saline has no preservatives in it, and it is not contaminated in any way,...

25 years ago I started my career by working Peds and PICU. Back then most patients were directly admitted, but a few that did not get directly admitted to the floor had to go through the ER. The ER...

You should apply in advance if you want to be employed at the time you move, or have an income shortly thereafter. Nursing jobs are sometimes hard to find (even for a nurse with 25 years of...

Kate, By far, my favorite Drug reference is epocrates. It's an app that you can download. I use the free version offered to the professionals. It's the drug reference that I've used for years.

This question is going to be difficult to answer in an absolute. Home Health nursing is demanding, carrying around a nursing bag full of supplies and a laptop where ever you go. Unless, your...

Kate, I worked for an agency that did just this very thing with some diagnosis. CHF, CVA, Post Joints, COPD, and to some degree diabetes,(even wound care patients) but that's a tricky one. With...

I'm a 46 year old BSN that graduated in 1988. Been a nurse all my life. Suddenly, I have this desire to get my NP. I never thought I wanted to go back to school, but now I do. I want to get this...

I came from a home health company that has been using McKesson for more than 5 years. I recently switched jobs and my new company uses Cerner. I can tell you from one switch to another, I MISS...

How did the interview go? What is your plan from here?

Where in NC are you moving to?

Yeah, I use a lot of tegaderm on skin tears, cover them for 7 days, the the fluid collect (tell the patient a puddle of fluid under the clear bandage may be normal, have them call if it is...

You said he has no doctor.. who is going to sign your 485? I would have notified that doctor of what is going on, and probably called 911 to send him back to the hospital. He became a danger to...

Apply tourniquet, look for a vein that you can SEE well, or feels juicy. Gloves on, clean with alcohol, stick vein. You can stop at the flash of blood, no need to advance to just draw blood. Then...

As an old time Peds nurse back in late 80s we had a kid (parents JW) that was bleeding out and was in desperate need of a blood transfusion. Of course the parents said no. Absolutely refused. They...

I was put to under sedation for a procedure a few years ago. MD told me pre op that I would be asleep, not know anything and when it was over they would wake me up. I heard everything they said...

My class of 88 was the first class that did not have a capping ceremony, we did get pins though, and I still keep it as a prized possession after all these years. I recall our class discussing the...