HHheart

HHheart

Home Health, Med-Surg, Ortho

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About HHheart

HHheart has 15 years experience and specializes in Home Health, Med-Surg, Ortho.


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  1. When to apply to Frontier

    Thanks for the response. I've been a RN for longer than I care to admit, LOL! I emailed Frontier but got no response. Apparently I'm not worth their time until I have the BSN in hand.
  2. IV Bumex in home?

    Did you bring that to the doc's attention (no K+ replacement / labs)?? Did they insist on it anyway?
  3. Too good to be true?

    I hope things are better for you in your new job. Sorry you had such a bad experience. Sounds like that agency needs to hire some real home health managers. I've seen the fallout before when an agency tries to hire management from other genres of nur...
  4. How do you

    I like Caliotter's post about conduit for the tubing - I once had a patient accidentally drag her tubing across the warming plate on her coffee pot and you can guess what happened! ....Please be careful!
  5. Question for those that hire

    I hire the nurses that work in our home health agency. My early days in nursing were spent in a teeny tiny little rural hospital where the nurses did everything from ED to ICU to dumping the trash. We learned it all, did it all. I have always felt...
  6. When to apply to Frontier

    I will finish my BSN this summer (from WGU) and would like to continue on toward CNM through Frontier without a hiccup. Do I have to wait until I have my BSN "in hand", or can I begin the application process before then? Any help is appreciated!
  7. Well, today we all start OASIS C

    Hmmm.... makes me wonder if you're using the same software my office is using.
  8. Advice on making your life better and easier

    I am the director of a moderately sized home health agency in Florida. We (myself and 2 of the companies VPs) shopped electronic/point of care devices for 2 years. We looked at literally everything out there. I can firmly say that Mckesson, Delta, Ho...
  9. We are looking for home health nursing software

    Well, there's more to my leaving than the software issue - that was just the last straw. This particular position has never been a good one, and I had hoped that going paperless would ease some of the pain, but it didn't. I wouldn't stay even if w...
  10. We are looking for home health nursing software

    Best of luck to you in your search! We looked at Cerner, Mysis, McKesson, Delta, Homecare Homebase, Carecentric, just to name a few. I don't have much info on the data storage issue - I'm more on the clinical side than the IT side. Actually, I jus...
  11. We are looking for home health nursing software

    From someone that has spent the past 2 1/2 yrs evaluating software for our agency - I can tell you that none of them are perfect. They all have their shortcomings, it's just a matter of what features are most important to your agency. We are curren...
  12. Need to interview a NP for a class assignment!!

    Thank you both so much!
  13. I would really appreciate it if someone could find it in their heart to help me out with a class assignment! I need to interview a NP - I will post the questions here in case anyone feels up to it! Interview Protocol 1. Discuss how you utiliz...
  14. Homebound status Medicare vs. Insurance

    That makes no sense at all. Each commercial insurance company has differing criteria. I'll bet he was a fairly new surveyor - sometimes you have to remind them that commercial insurance is a different animal.
  15. Vintage nursing uniform

    You will have better luck if you look at regular dress patterns for that era. Find something similar and she should be able to reproduce it in white. If she can't make minor adjustments (belt, collar, etc.,), you need to find another dressmaker. (...