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  1. Do you care if they want you to remove your shoes?

    I am also super vigilant about where I walk, so as to not track mud or anything into a patients home and will offer to vaccuum up any mess made...and I have also carried extra shoes with me on muddy icky days...
  2. embarressing moment in homecare

    I have a mild form of Cerebral Palsy, and I walk on my toes. As a result, I trip and fall often. I once tripped over a patients wheelchair footrest and did a faceplant right there in his room on my first visit. I also tripped and fell outside a patie...
  3. Do you care if they want you to remove your shoes?

    I would also like to add to this post that I must wear orthotics in my shoes that make it necessary for me to safely walk, and to have to remove my shoes would place me at risk for not only occupational injury but for further problems with safely wal...
  4. What's the worst weather you've gone out in?

    I used to live and work in the Florida Panhandle. and we had a vent patient in a trailer in the area of town that usually floods real bad..and so I had to go out into that during a hurricane...
  5. RN w/exp. w/? about HH

    I think that 25 an hour is not at all too much to ask. I agree with the previous poster, with your skills and experience you would be an awesome asset to home care. Many of the skills and areas of experience you mention are those that are dealt with ...
  6. de-accessing a port-a-cath, Safety Loc Huber?

    Thank you so much for posting this info. I JUST got stuck the other day de-accessing a lifeport, and had to go thru 5 of the worst days of my life, workers comp, labs, bloodwork, booster immunizations and the worst being the meds. Protease inhibitors...
  7. Oasis Confusion

    I have a question about a patient in regards to MO 680 toileting. If you have a patient who wears diapers due to occasional bowel incontinence related to diarrhea, (because she is unable to make it to the toilet on time) but who is physically able to...
  8. A little back story and then I will vent. I was asked in May if I would like to train for the Assistant DON position, which I accepted. Well, one week later, the DON left. We didn't hire another until 2 weeks ago, and she quit last week. I have had v...
  9. In respose to the previous entry, our consultant has also said that the majority of patients will have a skin lesion, and that a skin lesion is defined as any alteration in the color, texture or integrity of the skin, to paraphrase. Also, another tip...
  10. Question about IV therapy in the home

    I would like to expound on this subject some more, if I may. Would it also be okay for the RN to come in, begin the infusion and leave the patient in the care of the LPN, to return several hours later to discontinue the infusion. I am not sure if thi...
  11. I have a question that hopefully someone who practices in Florida can help me with, or maybe anyone can point me in the right direction. I am very frustrated. First, some background info. I have just been promoted to the position of Assistant Directo...
  12. Calling all HH Nurses, roll call

    Hello everyone! I am a newbie here, and I am loving these message boards! I read the "typical day in the life of a HHC nurse" thread, and thought that someone was living my life in an alternate universe! Anyway, I was an LPN for 6 years, and have bee...