Zippy83

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1. New Grads doing Registry/Travel

   Zippy83 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I have been a nurse for 10 years, I’ve done hospital (med/surg and DOU), LTC, subacute, home health, and hospice. I started out as a new grad employee and has to go through the whole orientation...

2. CNA's Are Tired Of Laziness

   Zippy83 replied to mlmckenzie's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   Just did a registry shift where two CNAs didn’t show up and they couldn’t find replacements, and several of the nurses were already pulling doubles. An additional LVN stayed on a double just to...

3. You show up for work and there is no one there. What to do?

   Zippy83 replied to Leonardo Del Toro's topic in General Nursing

   This conversation came up on a night shift where a fellow registry nurse shared an experience from last year during our regional Covid surge. They only had two nurses, one RN and one LVN, show up at a...

4. CNA's Are Tired Of Laziness

   Zippy83 replied to mlmckenzie's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

   First off, I agree that CNAs are both overworked and under appreciated. I have always tried to show appreciation and respect to EVERYONE on staff, CNAs, kitchen staff, secretaries, maintenance....

5. Are you noticing hourly rates dropping significantly on job offers in your area?

   Zippy83 replied to Zippy83's topic in General Nursing

   That's the thing though, the agency pay is still significantly higher than what places are offering to staff employees. It's just that agency pay is stagnating at pre-covid levels and the job offers I...

6. Are you noticing hourly rates dropping significantly on job offers in your area?

   Zippy83 posted a topic in General Nursing

   I’m an agency nurse, and while some places did offer pay boosts during covid (while others had no pay incentives and you were lucky if they had any PPE), I have noticed in the last month, the...

7. I’m in a Covid hotspot and about to crack

   Zippy83 posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I’ve been a hospice nurse for about a decade now, and had good coping skills related to death and dying, but there was definitely context involved. Now that we are having this insane surge in my...

8. When your partner doesn't get it

   Zippy83 posted a topic in Health, Stress Management

   I said something casually about a hobby I’d pursue if time and money were no object, and my boyfriend of 8 years went off on a topic that has come up many times: if you really wanted to do it, you...

9. Home health nurse working as a maid?

   Zippy83 replied to mzsuccess's topic in Home Health

   Isn’t this private duty, rather than home health? I don’t mean that you should have to do housekeeping, etc. But it sounds like you are there for a whole shift everyday, rather than intermittent...

10. Famous person as patient?

    Zippy83 replied to MarkMyWords's topic in General Nursing

    I’m a hospice and home health nurse in a city with many celebrities and I’ve had patients ranging from fairly well known to notable in their field, as well as family members of celebrities. I...

11. New to HH/ Rant/ Advice

    Zippy83 replied to aksti1018's topic in Home Health

    I have done up to 9 visits a day if all were follow ups and relatively simple, and not too far apart. However that would be one long day in a week with other days being 4-6 visits. There’s no way I...

12. Dealing with Pets

    Zippy83 replied to Nursevibes's topic in Home Health

    I can see why HH would seem like a better option while finishing school, but just FYI there are scarier things in HH than dogs and cats. The flexibility can definitely be there in terms of your...

13. Scheduling drama

    Zippy83 replied to Zippy83's topic in Home Health

    To clarify, if I did see her first thing in the morning it would be Monday/Thursday, or on Tuesday/Friday I can see her with that other cluster of patients in the area. Those were the options I gave...

14. Scheduling drama

    Zippy83 posted a topic in Home Health

    Since I started in home health and hospice it’s gone from patients being OK with just knowing the day and whether it would be an a.m. or p.m. visit, to giving a two hour window, to now at best...

15. Don't yell at co-workers in front of people

    Zippy83 replied to Emergent's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Also because it’s traumatic for patients and families. When I came in as a hospice nurse to see a patient at a SNF, the charge nurse there had some kind of beef with our hospice agency and was...