ame222

ame222 specializes in ER, CCU, Geri.

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1. Routine labs

   ame222 replied to Schmoo1022's topic in Geriatric

   Does anyone have an actual schedule with labs depending on what medication they take?

2. Nursing Documentation Forms

   ame222 replied to KimRN41514's topic in Management

   FYI: This is for long term care nursing:

3. Nursing Documentation Forms

   ame222 replied to KimRN41514's topic in Management

   From ame222: Can anyone share their schedules / forms for recommended labs for medication monitoring and how often they are being done. What forms / tracking procedure do you use to assure these are being completed. Who orders your initial labs and ...

4. Nursing Documentation Forms

   ame222 replied to KimRN41514's topic in Management

   Can anyone share their schedules / forms for recommended labs for medication monitoring and how often they are being done. What forms / tracking procedure do you use to assure these are being completed. Who orders your initial labs and who follows up...

5. Lab Tracking Logs

   ame222 posted a topic in LTC Directors

   Can anyone share their schedules / forms for recommended labs for medication monitoring and how often they are being done. What forms / tracking procedure do you use to assure these are being completed. Who orders your initial labs and who follows ...

6. Discharge Summaries....Need advice

   ame222 posted a topic in LTC Directors

   F:283 Dischage Summaries: Recapitulation of the residents stay, Final Summary of Status. Does anyone have any advice to share with me on the correct way these are to be done? How do you coordinate with medical records? Are these to be done after ...

7. DON position offer / feel unequiped/need advice

   ame222 replied to ame222's topic in LTC Directors

   Dear Cape Cod Mermaid: Can you (or anyone else) point out some specific web sites, books and any other resources I would be able to study and learn from to bring out the best possible expertise? I am very organized, can stay focused and multi task ...

8. DON position offer / feel unequiped/need advice

   ame222 posted a topic in LTC Directors

   I have been filling in as Interim DON for several months. I was asked to do it, it's not something I necessarily would have wanted, however in many ways it's made me a better person, much stronger and I realize I am able to cope with much more than I...

9. hired on as a unit manager

   ame222 replied to bebop1's topic in LTC Directors

   Thanks for responding. I can really say "DITTO" to feeling much the same as you. The job offered me in Home Health sounded like a real "dream job". It didn't turn out that way. I, too, got very tired of the "politics" and "competition" there. Th...

10. hired on as a unit manager

    ame222 replied to bebop1's topic in LTC Directors

    .....Just curious. Why did you choose to leave Home Health. I will be doing the same. I'm leaving Home Health, have accepted a job as Clinical Coortinator/Unit Manager in a LTC Rehab Center, which I previously worked at for several years. I'm exc...

11. Cell Phone Useage

    ame222 posted a topic in Home Health

    The HH Agency is "thinking" about providing a cell phone for business use only. How does someone "estimate" the # of minutes needed? What are other Agencies doing in this area? Various cell phone companies provide different plans. Just curious as...

12. Cell Phone Useage

    ame222 posted a topic in Home Health

    Our agency does not provied cell phones, nor do they reimburse us for business time spent on our own cell phones. I don't think this is fair to be expected to pay for our own plan (family plan) with specific minutes which of course are used up makin...

13. How long to complete an admission

    ame222 replied to 1dernurse's topic in Home Health

    My first admission alone took me 2.5 hrs in the home and another 3 hrs. finishing up at home. We get paid a flat rate, no difference for admissions. I have to agree, practice really helps. The OASIS is so foreign at first, but again, practice help...

14. New to Nursing, New to Home Health!

    ame222 replied to Aniroc's topic in Home Health

    In reference to the following note, this might help. I purchased the book called "Wound Care Essentials" by Sharon Baranoski and Elizabeth Ayello. It is a great reference book and has helped me alot.

15. please help

    ame222 replied to lovely1981's topic in Home Health

    What kind of information are you looking for?