fsudmbRN

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  1. Car Stock Storage

    fsudmbRN replied to fsudmbRN's topic in Home Health

    I honestly have a rather large car stock. It fills a large tote and maybe half another one. It has everything from cath supplies, a few IV things, basic wound care supplies, even some wound vac...

  2. Home health per hour or per visit?

    fsudmbRN replied to ghost_'s topic in Home Health

    Would your pay per hour only be during visit

  3. EVV (Electronic Visit Verification) experience?

    fsudmbRN replied to BarrelOfMonkeys's topic in Home Health

    I am sure it is already being done by our tablets and that is why they havent said anything to us at my

  4. GTube feeds at home

    fsudmbRN replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Home Health

    I always use the check for placement using the "listen for the

  5. Home health RN vs Case Manager RN??

    fsudmbRN replied to aprilj90's topic in Home Health

    I am a case manager for home health. I have an area that I "manage" and make sure that the patient has everything they need. The majority of the RN's who work in my agency are all case managers and...

  6. Cigarette Smoke in the Home

    fsudmbRN replied to DallasRN's topic in Home Health

    My agency won't allow me to refuse a visit, so I wear a mask in those homes. In addition, I ask that they not smoke while I am in the home. If they refuse, I tell them that I am sorry, but I have to...

  7. RN Home Health

    fsudmbRN replied to Cfeucht's topic in Home Health

    I think we get

  8. Home Health and expectations

    fsudmbRN replied to BrianLee73's topic in Home Health

    Sometimes they will say anything to get some people to leave. I have heard a patient speaking on the phone and tell a patient literally that. That we would be out every four hours for an...

  9. National Standard Productivity

    fsudmbRN replied to mukluk2's topic in Home Health

    I am PPV and we have the same basic rubric as Kaisu.... SOC- 2 units, ROCs, recert, and DC's are 1.5, routine visits are 1. Any visit over 90 minutes are 1.5. We dont get units for miles though... we...

  10. Case Management Nursing (CM)

    fsudmbRN replied to traumaRUs's topic in Case Management

    I am a field case manager, also. I basically do all needed OASIS visits and supervision visits. Depending on the area patient load, I do a bunch of routine visits, also. My patient load is between...

  11. Trend for PT doing RN role?

    fsudmbRN replied to Floater In FL's topic in Home Health

    Nope.... if physician only orders PT, they are the ones who do the OASIS. PT and ST can be considered stand alone disciplines and can do their own OASIS. OT can

  12. Trend for PT doing RN role?

    fsudmbRN replied to Floater In FL's topic in Home Health

    I am a case manager in home health. I can assure you that it is NOT a requirement. We have several patients who are PT only. BUT, PT's do not perform staple removal, draw labs, etc. They can monitor...

  13. Community complaint re: company car

    fsudmbRN replied to Snowchild's topic in Home Health

    This is the biggest reason I dont have a company car! Yes, the wear, tear and mileage on my personal car sucks.... but it prevents stuff like this from

  14. Uniforms

    fsudmbRN replied to CapeCodMermaid's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    The only type environment that I have NOT worn a uniform in is as a psych RN. We wore street clothes and were encouraged NOT to wear scrubs. It honestly did effect how the patients reacted with us....

  15. 2 full-time jobs?

    fsudmbRN replied to anna225's topic in General Nursing

    My Florida pre-reqs were close to two years at the school I went to. Things like A&PI, A&P2, Microbiology... those couldn't be taken together.... so you ended up in school taking pre-reqs for...

  16. 2 full-time jobs?

    fsudmbRN replied to anna225's topic in General Nursing

    I only have an ADN. I have been working for 10 years. I have had every type of nursing job out there... minus a DON, but I have never even THOUGHT about pursuing that one!!! I have never been without...

  17. New grad hired as charge nurse

    fsudmbRN replied to mdenton's topic in General Nursing

    Any RN... especially one working a night shift... is in a supervisor/charge capacity. ESPCIALLY NIGHT! I have worked in long term care for over 7 of my 10 years of nursing. I worked as house...

  18. New Staff Developer

    fsudmbRN posted a topic in General Nursing

    I am a brand new staff developer at a LTC/SNF. I have worked in LTC/SNF for the majority of my 10 years of nursing, with a small break in home health and inpatient psych. There hasn't been a "true"...

  19. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    fsudmbRN replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    What is wrong with this? Well, I spell my daughter's name

  20. What's the funniest most unusual baby name?

    fsudmbRN replied to nirvana1's topic in Nursing Humor

    I am one who has dogs with those type names... Gauge and Sabot.... My husband was a gunner on a Bradley tank. haha Thank goodness it was only the

  21. funny charting errors

    fsudmbRN replied to hello_nurse_mel's topic in Nursing Humor

    A nurse I worked with many moons ago wrote in the chart what the resident wrote. This was over 10 years ago. I am now a staff developer and when teaching charting techniques, I STILL use her actual...

  22. What does your username mean?

    fsudmbRN replied to LifesAJourney's topic in Nursing Humor

    Graduate of Florida State University.... HUGE Dave Matthews Band fan (Just went to concert #41 in August).... and a

  23. I'm lost. I want to quit nursing.

    fsudmbRN replied to Amdecl6's topic in General Nursing

    I worked in ortho for many years. I have been an ortho patient. I had literally been called into a patients room 15 times in about 30-45 minutes (as soon as I walked out, he was calling again). Some...

  24. I'm lost. I want to quit nursing.

    fsudmbRN replied to Amdecl6's topic in General Nursing

    My resume has always been posted to Indeed. I occasionally will purposefully send it, but I also get the random emails that they saw my resume. They could see it, but I don't think many of them think...

  25. Would this hurt my chances at getting a new grad position?

    fsudmbRN replied to floatingrib's topic in General Nursing

    If you leave with good notice, it shouldn't hurt you at all. If you can tough it out and stay, it could help you though! I know that at a hospital I worked at filled their nursing staff with new grads...