G'smommy

I posted this in Telephone Triage, but I think it is probably just as relevant here. I worked telephone triage for several years, but now I am a stay at home mom. I just started a website with work from home job leads and I wanted to share with you ...

Okay, I have ICU, Remicade clinic, and pediatric telephone triage experience. I recently was hired by a home infusion company. I've watched another nurse on two three visits and now I will be on call every night and weekend solo. I have no idea what ...

Thanks so much. I will be asking for these things today. I'm studying my butt off to be competent and putting together all the resources I can find to have onhand.

Thanks IVRUS! I have a feeling I've signed up with a not so good company. I'm betting they don't have P&P. I've asked so many questions and haven't really gotten answers. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

I'm making a list of things I need before I'm on call next week. I am requesting a list of staff phone numbers as well as manuals for every pump we use. I'm not clueless about taking care of the patients. I'm just clueless as to what to expect when o...

If I get transfered to the PP dept. I would like to become a lactation consultant. I read on the IBCLC website that I need 600 hours of breastfeeding consultation. What counts as bc? Working with my patients? That could take forever.

7/call

I had no motivation other than to be at home with my kids. I don't feel like I need a bleach shower after work now, so that is one perk. I get to work in my pjs. Downside, parents can be rude and not take your advise. I let that bother me at first. N...

check out grady in atlanta. they list their pay online.

I work for a Children's Hospital, but I know there are companies that allow nurses to do what I do. Fonemed is one of them.

six dollars per call triaged is their pay. I don't really have other info.

Pay is 6/call

I am able to get up and walk around. My calls come via fax and I return them. I can hear my fax machine ring when I have a call. I do laundry, watch movies, etc between calls. That being said, my protocols aren't as vigorous as many here, so I don't ...

The only patients that ever unnerved me were the ones with "important" family who hovered over the bed and reported everything I did to management, the doctor, God, whoever would listen. The ones that make you unable to take care of your other patien...

I think that is nuts. So if the patient went in and was dx with strep and on abx for only a day, if you don't know that, you just send them right back in? I am so glad our protocol isn't like that. That is nuts. We even have a "failure on abx" protoc...

Not all kids are the same. No matter what the age.

Thank you to the peds nurses who try to give children a chance to be calm. Their is nothing worse than taking my son (who loves going to the doctor's office) to a medical office or the hospital and having them automatically try to hold him down. That...

That is nuts. I triage a lot more calls per hour than many of the nurses on this forum and I would go crazy doing 100/day more than a few days a year (Labor day was like that for me/ 115/8 hours). You might start applying to some telecommute positio...

I miss IVs. Sometimes I wish I could bring some home and stick my husband for kicks. :)

Well for me, it is all about my family. I'd shovel crap as long as I could be here with my kids while I did it. So for me, I'd rather do hands on care if it meant seeing them more. Plus, people are more likely to be rude to you on the phone in my exp...

If you keep BS protocol by the phone and use it exactly, you will never go wrong.

Nope. I like being with my family while I work.

Non-smoker, non-partisan, but republican if I had to choose.

I gave up pharmacy school to be a nurse. The pay can be as good in some RN jobs, is great anyway even when it is less than PharmD, school isn't as long, overall debt when leaving school isn't as high, and there are a bazillion and one nursing jobs to...

I don't think there are different levels of triage, so much as types of triage. The job you are describing sounds like a non-licensed person could do it. Is it an RN only job?