nursekiddo

nursekiddo

Urgent Care, Hospice, Home Health

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About nursekiddo

nursekiddo has 8 years experience and specializes in Urgent Care, Hospice, Home Health.


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  1. OMG Say it correctly!

    Ever use a "hoya lift" to transfer a patient? Apparently some of my coworkers use them all the time.
  2. Words of wisdom/advice for new hospice nurse?

    My heart is in hospice. Although I switched to home health for better hours, I miss hospice terribly. As the above poster said, the patient is anyone you meet behind that door. That is so true. 90% of the time, the family just needs to hear a ki...
  3. Can someone set me straight?

    Don't get me wrong, I am not saying I have a problem with assessments and seeing patients. That is what I am there to do. I am not saying that setting up appointments is a "legal" issue. It just seems odd that the patients don't really have a case...
  4. Can someone set me straight?

    I keep hearing "that's just how it is in home health", but I am not convinced that everything is on the up and up with this HHA. I have dealt with hospice and medicare for years and know the hospice regs up down and sideways. Home health seems to b...
  5. Did the shut-down of Mobile Doctors affect you?

    I'm in Texas. They absolutely deserve what's coming to them! You're lucky that only four of yours were on with them! This has been a beatdown.
  6. I'm working for a HHA where a good 50% of our patients were Mobile Doctors patients. For those who don't know, Mobile Doctors was shut down at the end of August for fraud. I saw a patient late last month whose only doc was a Mobile Doc and just ha...
  7. resources for hospice medications?

    Once you are in the field awhile, you'll learn the tools of the trade. Comfort medications are usually the same across the board: Roxanol or MSIR, Lorazepam and/or Haldol, atropine. You'll have a dose you start out with, you observe how it works, a...