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1. Miles on my car

   cargalrn replied to friendlylark's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Here's an idea. Take the money you get for mileage and put it in the separate savings account for car expenses and a down payment for a new car when you need

2. Hospice nurse role in death at home.

   cargalrn posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Hi I'm new to hospice and and I work on call. I did do hospice years ago. My question is... After arriving at a death in pronouncing and wasting medications call the funeral home called the doctor and...

3. Triage and on call

   cargalrn posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I just got a new seven day on seven day off on call Hospice position. What are typical reasons why and RN would go out other than intractable pain or a death. I understand admissions, death visits,...

4. On-call hospice nurse

   cargalrn replied to lwheatley's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   Hi hospice on call nurses I have a question I just started that on call position and I am not clear on what I need to go out for. ITriage myself. Should I go out for a skin tear in a

5. On-call hospice nurse

   cargalrn replied to lwheatley's topic in Hospice, Palliative

   I'd like to update this thread. Any on-call hospice nurse is out there? What do you go out for? I understand there's some routine visits and admissions. You would go out for deaths, intractable pain,...

6. Weekend program in home health

   cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

   They're telling me I have to go to the office to complete the charting and my anxiety is out of the ballpark about this. They're threatening to report me to the state. I really don't know what to do....

7. Weekend program in home health

   cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

   So I almost had a nervous breakdown about this job. I put in my resignation via email on my iPad that they issued. I offered to meet somebody to pick up all the equipment in my computer my car stock...

8. Weekend program in home health

   cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

   I resigned

9. Weekend program in home health

   cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

   Thank you. I'm new to home care. There also should be incentive for working the weekend program and 12-14 hour days isn't one of

10. Weekend program in home health

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

    More... I asked at the interview if they were eight hour days and she said yes and some charting. But now I'm told that I may be doing up to four start to care a day. If every started care is 3 hours...

11. Weekend program in home health

    cargalrn posted a topic in Home Health

    I'm looking into a weekend program in home health and I was wondering what the time commitments would look like. It would be a Friday Saturday and Sunday. Are these realistically 12-hour

12. Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    We are both divorced and our children are already raised; between the two of us, my three dtrs and his one dtr, are grown women, employed in good careers, college grads and are all probably on birth...

13. Are oral contraceptives healthcare?

    cargalrn posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    My fiance is very angry to mandate that oral contraceptives should be paid for by health insurance. I feel it is a woman's right, and it is a medication, in additional to medical uses besides...

14. vent about RN career over family/happiness

    cargalrn replied to redredrose's topic in General Nursing

    Things have a way of working out. Go for it. You have one chance at the love of your life but may have multilple nursing jobs before you

15. Do the right thing. Every time. No matter what.

    cargalrn replied to Mully's topic in General Nursing

    Nurse, CNA, unit clerk. Cant abide by the stupid or the lazy. Usually play stupid to avoid work. The woman who could n't breath could use some reassurance or just plain repositioning, opiates or...