Zippy83

Zippy83

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  1. Home Health Nurses, how many opens and visits do you have a week?

    Zippy83 replied to owleyes's topic in Home Health

    When you are talking about cost and efficiency, I assume you were talking about the number of visits for an individual patient per episode? She doesn’t say that the other nurses are taking on more...

  2. Help! PPV versus Houly HH visits

    Zippy83 replied to lpn954's topic in Home Health

    Even if your visits only take 10-20 minutes, which is hard to believe even for the most stable patient (what about teaching on management of diabetes, wound healing and infection control,etc?), what...

  3. Big med error and communication breakdown

    Zippy83 posted a topic in Home Health

    The patient does not seem to have had any serious symptoms or adverse effects related to the error, thankfully. However, both adult children are MDs and they have already called to formally complain...

  4. Transgender man has stillbirth

    Zippy83 replied to DaveICURN's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, it’s not either-or. Gender and sex are not the same. One is biological and the other is a societal construct. The best example of this is people who are born intersex (having some of both...

  5. Moving California. Insight on pay scale etc?

    Zippy83 replied to Nurse4lifeNC's topic in General Nursing

    I was going to guess Palm Springs, but later you mention you are in a mid to large size city. I guess that’s also subjective. Where can you get a huge house with a pool for that price in SoCal?...

  6. Moving California. Insight on pay scale etc?

    Zippy83 replied to Nurse4lifeNC's topic in General Nursing

    There are many factors involved, I agree. My family has also been here for generations, but I did live out of state for a couple years so I have some comparison. Do you rent or own, and are you in a...

  7. Moving California. Insight on pay scale etc?

    Zippy83 replied to Nurse4lifeNC's topic in General Nursing

    Do you have a specific part of California you want to live in? It’s a huge state and there are a lot of variables. I am in Southern California, and an RN with you education and level of experience...

  8. Moving California. Insight on pay scale etc?

    Zippy83 replied to Nurse4lifeNC's topic in General Nursing

    As a California native, I agree with the posts that say it’s terrible and you shouldn’t live here! ? But seriously,the cost of living is so high, I know that I could be living better anywhere...

  9. How do you get called in?

    Zippy83 replied to Johnnyappleseed's topic in General Nursing

    We had this issue at one of the hospice agencies I work with, one of the triage nurses was only sending text messages into the On Call nurses who were supposed to do the visits, and not following up...

  10. Big med error and communication breakdown

    Zippy83 replied to Zippy83's topic in Home Health

    It had been beeping but the patient and wife ignored it and didn’t tell anyone or take a look at the pump, even when I called to give a new ETA.

  11. Difficulty with coworker

    Zippy83 replied to CommunityRNBSN's topic in General Nursing

    I am less convinced that this is an overall problem with the work environment with the details given so far. The OP sounds somewhat unsure of herself even in her explanation of what happened, and this...

  12. Difficulty with coworker

    Zippy83 replied to CommunityRNBSN's topic in General Nursing

    Whether or not she’s usually a good employee, that is completely out of line for her to refuse to do her job while she’s at work because she’s handling something personal. School is on her own...

  13. BON and alleged verbal abuse via pt

    Zippy83 replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    This made me laugh out loud because I read it imagining donuts from the bakery. I was thinking to myself, I’m jealous too if a facility is using donuts for pressure relief! Thinking in terms of the...

  14. How much math is actually used in Nursing school and at the job site?

    Zippy83 replied to nay018's topic in Pre-Nursing Students

    Yes you will use math. Many things are automated now, but you still have to double check dosages set by devices or prefilled by pharmacies. Also when setting CADD pumps, feeding pumps etc, or...

  15. Taking manual bp on forearm

    Zippy83 replied to Jen Cole's topic in General Students

    Taking a forearm BP on an obese patient is not at all uncommon. In fact, the patient is probably used to this, which is why they directed OP to do so. It also seems pretty clear that the OP...

  16. Need advice

    Zippy83 replied to Futnur's topic in General Students

    Is this a for-profit school? A public program? Do you know how they are doing financially? Maybe it was too late to bring in alternates but they also couldn’t run the program without the rest of the...

  17. BON and alleged verbal abuse via pt

    Zippy83 replied to Beldar_the_Cenobite's topic in General Nursing

    I could see how even asking for extra staff to reposition her when standing over her might have drawn the reaction that you got. Even if you had said “We need 5-6 people”, she might have heard...

  18. Feeling embarrassed, ask the md a stupid question

    Zippy83 replied to RobertJo's topic in General Nursing

    Don’t worry about what the MD thinks of you, you did your job. I once had a visit on a Saturday to a home health patient, I knew she was almost certainly healing normally but she had some concerns....

  19. Should I divorce my husband

    Zippy83 replied to gonzo1's topic in General Nursing

    I see the humor in including a pack of cards in a gift for nurses this year, In fact I even see it as a way that the companies are acknowledging that they are aware of the issues facing nurses and...

  20. Big med error and communication breakdown

    Zippy83 replied to Zippy83's topic in Home Health

    So the patient was at home with his wife, but the wife did not call anyone or do anything about the machine beeping. Also, it would have been beeping at the times that I called her to give her my new...

  21. Nursing Assistants

    Zippy83 replied to Bri1231's topic in General Nursing

    In my state in the US there are state guidelines that facilities have to follow. CNAs can only do non-invasive care, ADLs, range of motion, vitals. They can empty a catheter drainage bag but can’t...

  22. What is a bad day?

    Zippy83 replied to kelzerize's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    7 years in hospice and I’ve definitely had bad days, but usually when I was with a bad agency. Hostile admin/management exist in hospice also, it really depends on the agency. In the field, if they...

  23. Does size matter (Gloves nurses, gloves!)

    Zippy83 replied to guest825264's topic in General Nursing

    If the gloves are too large, especially the vinyl ones that don’t conform at all, I have so much trouble manipulating anything small, so it makes wound care or injections really difficult. I might...

  24. Should I divorce my husband

    Zippy83 replied to gonzo1's topic in General Nursing

    Keep him, he sounds like a real

  25. Reasons nurses get fired

    Zippy83 replied to Nursing On The Run's topic in General Nursing

    This sounds like one of my instructors from nursing school. He was funny and always telling stories of his hijinks as a floor