kicnic

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1. WGU FNP

   kicnic replied to stepbystep12's topic in Western Governors

   Recently posted on the wgu rn-bsn page from a current student was a letter from her mentor saying the fnp program is coming Spring 2020.

2. average pay for HHN in Georgia

   kicnic replied to mother1strn2nd's topic in Home Health

   I think they should be reimbursed for mileage...

3. help please, my employer cannot notarise employment verification

   kicnic replied to fusionfire32's topic in Georgia

   Do you have mobile notaries? I had a notary person come to my job to notarize the form. I just had to pay an extra fee for them drive over there...

4. Case Manager Pay

   kicnic replied to Pooksmom1996's topic in Home Health

   hchb= terrible, charting on a pda= more terrible!!

5. Crisis Care

   kicnic replied to CLUVRN's topic in General Nursing

   When I worked for a hospice, the crisis care team were the nurses that provided care to patients when their deaths were imminent. This was 24 hr care, divided into 12hr shifts for each nurse. So the company provided a nurse 24hrs until the patient di...

6. National University LVN to RN

   kicnic replied to JenRN2011's topic in LPN-RN

   @darlene... i can't pm u an answer, so i will leave one here. at the time i applied it was easy to get in... no wait list. but i'm not sure if that's the case anymore.

7. For Southern California Nurses

   kicnic replied to ladykb8's topic in California

   If you are planning to live in san diego, arabic would be a very good second language to learn...

8. Question about zegerid...

   kicnic replied to jaelpn's topic in General Nursing

   same price as prevacid. so the 42 count box is around $24.99. at least at walmart... :) u should try it.

9. Question about zegerid...

   kicnic replied to jaelpn's topic in General Nursing

   i have tried it. zegerid is the same as prilosec... just buffered a different way. it's buffered with 1100mg of sodium bicarbonate. i like it so far... i feel like it works better than prilosec or prevacid. one other thing... the pills are pretty lar...

10. National University LVN to RN

    kicnic replied to JenRN2011's topic in LPN-RN

    yes i did.

11. Fever and dying

    kicnic replied to honeybee888's topic in General Nursing

    Having worked for hospice before, I know that this is true. Fever is a natural part of the dying process. If the fever does not seem to be bothering the patient, then it is unecessary to give the suppository. It will only make the patient uncomfortab...

12. Homebound?

    kicnic replied to KateRN1's topic in Home Health

    Yeah. we had a pt like that on service with us once. we discharged him to an infusion clinic for portacath management. he was already administering his own tpn, i think it was. you guys should definitely be discharging this guy for not "homeboundness...

13. Homebound?

    kicnic replied to KateRN1's topic in Home Health

    what are you guys seeing him for? what skill are you performing at your visits? not only does this man need to be homebound, he also has to have a skilled need for services........ and he must have been scored independent for bathing, dressing, light...

14. Homebound?

    kicnic replied to KateRN1's topic in Home Health

    Not Homebound!!! Now does he have medicare and if so, why does he have medicare?

15. Hospice nursing guidelines

    kicnic replied to Steve RN BSN's topic in General Nursing

    What you was told is absolutely not true. I am a home health nurse. If you write your frequency for 1W4 or whatever that just means you will see the pt one time a week for 4 weeks, not every 7 days, it doesn't matter what day of the week you do your ...