kicnic

Recently posted on the wgu rn-bsn page from a current student was a letter from her mentor saying the fnp program is coming Spring 2020.

I think they should be reimbursed for mileage...

Do you have mobile notaries? I had a notary person come to my job to notarize the form. I just had to pay an extra fee for them drive over there...

hchb= terrible, charting on a pda= more terrible!!

When I worked for a hospice, the crisis care team were the nurses that provided care to patients when their deaths were imminent. This was 24 hr care, divided into 12hr shifts for each nurse. So the company provided a nurse 24hrs until the patient died. Often you would explain to the pt's family the stages of dying and what was normal/not normal. You provided comfort to the pt by administering meds or just by being a calming prescence in the room. Applying cool compress for fever, positioning pt comfortably, e.t.c. The pros of the job are: you only have 1 pt to care for, technically it's not a hard job, you get to be with a pt in their final tranisition in life, and your teaching to the family can make or break the experience for them. The cons are: it's a 12hr shift, you will be watching someone die, and sometimes pt's families do not handle the situation well. However, I found the jobe to be very satisfying. I hope you enjoy your new job!

@darlene... i can't pm u an answer, so i will leave one here. at the time i applied it was easy to get in... no wait list. but i'm not sure if that's the case anymore.

If you are planning to live in san diego, arabic would be a very good second language to learn...

same price as prevacid. so the 42 count box is around $24.99. at least at walmart... :) u should try it.

i have tried it. zegerid is the same as prilosec... just buffered a different way. it's buffered with 1100mg of sodium bicarbonate. i like it so far... i feel like it works better than prilosec or prevacid. one other thing... the pills are pretty large :)

yes i did.

Having worked for hospice before, I know that this is true. Fever is a natural part of the dying process. If the fever does not seem to be bothering the patient, then it is unecessary to give the suppository. It will only make the patient uncomfortable.

Yeah. we had a pt like that on service with us once. we discharged him to an infusion clinic for portacath management. he was already administering his own tpn, i think it was. you guys should definitely be discharging this guy for not "homeboundness" (not a word, i know :wink2: ) as well as non-compliance. there is no skill here.....

what are you guys seeing him for? what skill are you performing at your visits? not only does this man need to be homebound, he also has to have a skilled need for services........ and he must have been scored independent for bathing, dressing, light meal prep, med management... that means the agency can't be getting reimbursed much for him. why bother?

Not Homebound!!! Now does he have medicare and if so, why does he have medicare?

What you was told is absolutely not true. I am a home health nurse. If you write your frequency for 1W4 or whatever that just means you will see the pt one time a week for 4 weeks, not every 7 days, it doesn't matter what day of the week you do your visit, just that it is only one time for that week. Now if you write your frequency for q 7 days then that means that you will do a visit every 7 days. I hope that clears things up for you. Kim