NPvampire

NPvampire MSN, RN, APRN

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  1. Any Psych Home Health Nurses???

    NPvampire replied to carriegrn's topic in Psychiatric

    I've done it, and liked it fairly enough, but I stopped doing it all the time due to money and computer paperwork necessary eating my time up. I felt like I was working for $10 per hour when it was...

  2. I want to be a Psych NP- Advice please!

    NPvampire replied to beauty912's topic in Psychiatric

    Yes, get experience first, even if it's just PRN. You may love or hate it depending on your actual working experience--which is usually more dramatic than the protected student

  3. Gastric bypass surgery for mentally ill clients

    NPvampire replied to Abby315's topic in Psychiatric

    I've noticed home health patients that were mildly mentally ill, and became much more severe after their surgeries. I've also noticed regular persons become mentally ill after gastric bypass....

  4. Are there any psych areas which will keep other non-psych nursing skills sharp?

    NPvampire replied to satyadhi's topic in Psychiatric

    Drug detoxification and places that do ECT keep up more medical skills than the state hospital,

  5. Becoming a psych NP... no psych experience

    NPvampire replied to Girlygirl69's topic in Psychiatric

    Can you shadow an RN or NP in a psych facility before quitting your hospital job? I would say working in psych is a passion because the pay is awful and the patients can be very violent at times. I...

  6. Sell me on Psych Nursing

    NPvampire replied to skinnegcCNA's topic in Psychiatric

    Working in psych won't get you to CRNA school. And more than a year in psych will probably kill your chances to get back into the medical hospital at all, around here it does anyway. If you want...

  7. Pay, benefits, etc @ UHS facilities

    NPvampire replied to TheNurseIsIn's topic in Psychiatric

    I am in a nonunion state and my first job out of school was at a UHS Pruitt facility. The most senior floor RN made $24 plus a $2 shift diff. Maybe others are

  8. new grad psych shift hours

    NPvampire replied to xdelitezx's topic in Psychiatric

    Psych has high turnover, and probably within a few months someone will quit on day or evenings and you can slide into those shifts instead. Could you do 3-12s instead of 5-8s for

  9. Pregnant New Graduate Nurse

    NPvampire replied to Sarahpednurse's topic in General Nursing

    And if you're on med-surg, they will stick you with the nasty lifting, MRSA, and everything else if they don't know you are pregnant. Be cautious if you're working in med-surg, ID, anything like...

  10. Pregnant New Graduate Nurse

    NPvampire replied to Sarahpednurse's topic in General Nursing

    I would have told them. I came close to signing a 2 year agreement when I was graduating and pregnant, and was told that since my birth time was not over 12 months of service, and didnt' qualify for...

  11. would like to quit one of my jobs....but??

    NPvampire replied to NPvampire's topic in General Nursing

    thank you stargazer. I think it is the latter, and I actually wanted to quit a year ago, when I got what my herbologist called "a bacterial infection from an animal" after going into a place with 3...

  12. Need your advice, please, about new grad job

    NPvampire replied to ArtsyCraftsy's topic in First Year After Licensure

    I just wanted to say, many hospitals that make you sign a contract make you pay when you break it too, to repay your training costs. It can be up to 10 grand--so be careful with job #1! Personally,...

  13. would like to quit one of my jobs....but??

    NPvampire replied to NPvampire's topic in General Nursing

    Yeah, well, I figure I have been at HH 15 months now, and I will finish out the September month as I agreed, but after that...I think I may be giving notice. The answer seems more plain when I write...

  14. What reason is used for call offs!

    NPvampire replied to madwife2002's topic in General Nursing

    We used to have a coworker that worked 2 16 hour shifts every weekend. And 2/3 weekends she would call in: "sick," "snowbound" (not on the TV radar honey), "death in the family," "car busted," on and...

  15. Co-worker talking behind my back "did i handel this right"

    NPvampire replied to Trekfan's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Ha. Our old NM let 5 people quit in furious anger when her "pet" stole their hours ($), overtime ($), seats at committee meetings (prestige), and shifted her work onto others because she was talking...

  16. How do you make a living????

    NPvampire replied to sophiepinksydney's topic in Home Health

    Our agency told me that Medicare requires 30 minutes for regular visit and 60 minutes for an admission, even supervisory. This was documented on the computer with a time stamped signature by the...

  17. Advise for clinic RN thinking of working prn for HH

    NPvampire replied to ayorenee's topic in Home Health

    My advice is to see if you can "ride along" with a current employee to actual pt houses, not ALF, and see if you like working in those conditions. Patient's houses can be NASTY--I mean health...

  18. Pets

    NPvampire replied to NurseLoveJoy88's topic in Home Health

    whoa, you are allowed to choose? My agency doesn't care, they will send anyone

  19. Question about HH job offer and Advice

    NPvampire replied to nursenatalie6287's topic in Home Health

    WOW for Florida!!!! I'm in GA and it's $29 for RN here. $45 discharge/recert, $70 SOC. It sucks. I feel like I net $10 per hour with the actual time spent dealing with the job. I'm considering...

  20. Amedisys

    NPvampire replied to KateRN1's topic in Home Health

    Yeah, just wait until you end up driving around for 3 hours to see patients that mysteriously "aren't home" despite supposed homebound status and get paid for 1/5 visits you had scheduled. I can't...

  21. Best vehicle to use for visits????

    NPvampire replied to JenRN22's topic in Home Health

    I have a toyota camry hybrid and a vw jetta wagon diesel. The diesel gets far better mileage on average. You really have to be in heavy stop-go traffic to get the value out of a hybrid over its...

  22. Home Health vs Dyalisis

    NPvampire replied to foxyroxyrn's topic in Home Health

    Our company gives 40 cents per mile and I drive a diesel compact and barely break

  23. home health nursing

    NPvampire replied to rward12's topic in General Nursing

    Oh yeah, and there's rarely weekends or holidays and it's usually 8-5 give or take. It's a good schedule if you have school aged

  24. home health nursing

    NPvampire replied to rward12's topic in General Nursing

    I've done HH too, not full-time, but steady part-time. I think it depends on the company you work for. I switched away from doing it part-time to going per diem because I was spending all day...

  25. nursing career without touching people

    NPvampire replied to confusedstudent2011's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Whoa...*shaking head* what about teaching nursing at a high school? That's mostly mannequins; our local nurse teacher has 50% general health classes for the whole