AngiRN

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1. On Call dilemma

   AngiRN replied to AngiRN's topic in Home Health

   Due to our staffing with nurses, each nurse has a designated day Mon-Thurs, it is the same day q week. Then they rotate weekend they are oncall q 4th week from Friday 5pm- Monday 0800. Thru the week, after 5pm, they are responsible for any PM admits,...

2. On Call dilemma

   AngiRN posted a topic in Home Health

   How does other agencies do your oncall? We cover a 6 county area & have someone triage all the after hour calls, so the field nurses do not have to take time to answer each call. We have LPN's who are scheduled with PM visits, but the RN's may ha...

3. What would you have done with this hard to track down client?

   AngiRN replied to nursegeorge's topic in Home Health

   I feel you have yourself covered... it is very frustrating when these clients only care about getting admitted to homecare when it's late at night and they start freaking about their wounds, meds, IV's, etc. If the client was not physically in the ho...

4. Strange things that you saw when you were a student

   AngiRN replied to cokie's topic in General Nursing

   I wish, I could erase it from my mind! I immediately marked OB nurse off my list upon graduation!:chair:

5. Strange things that you saw when you were a student

   AngiRN replied to cokie's topic in General Nursing

   In nursing school, OB rotation, 1 of my patient was 1st timer and wrote out a 20 page wish list for how the labor/delivery/etc. would be handled, such as, absolutely no analgesics, not even tylenol..on and on....which that was fine, so...I head into ...

6. What do your coworkers do to annoy you?

   AngiRN replied to RNinICU's topic in General Nursing

   The biggest thing that honks me off, is coworkers that ask for a favor, such as covering oncall or an extra day to pick up for them and CONVENIENTLY get alzheimers when you ask them!! Also, nurses that know that something has been ordered and delibe...

7. A CNA snatched meds from me.

   AngiRN replied to Yonsei94RN's topic in General Nursing

   Unfortunately for you, this CNA knows you are a new nurse and then add in that you are new staff and she is totally taking advantage of this....Believe me, you will chuck this as a learning experience and most of us nurses have gone through it, when ...