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  1. 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...

  2. 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

  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 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

  7. 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....

  8. 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...

  9. Weekend program in home health

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Home Health

    I resigned

  10. 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

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  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...

  16. Help, am I overreacting or is this normal???

    cargalrn replied to spicy1's topic in Medical-Surgical

    I would not care for this either. The charge RN could have put you on as an RN, therefore, the other nurses have smaller assignments, and use the team approach for lifting, vitals, etc. All work...

  17. Boundaries question

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Psychiatric

    You have all helped me understand this greatly. Thank

  18. Boundaries question

    cargalrn posted a topic in Psychiatric

    Is it illegal to speak to a former patient on the phone if they call in, or if you see them, say at the mall? I try to be aware of boundaries, but if I really bonded with that patient, how would it...

  19. Boundaries question

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks for all the responses. I remain unsure why this nurse said this to me. She is pursuing a doctorate and I question if she knows something about this topic that I don't. (I'm sure she...

  20. Boundaries question

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Psychiatric

    Premature post above, thanks again,

  21. Boundaries question

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Psychiatric

    Thanks again, but can you tell me why probably? Probably unwise, lol. But, I'm new at psych, but at times love

  22. Boundaries question

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Psychiatric

    OK, thanks. Is it even

  23. give lantus with food?

    cargalrn posted a topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Hi, quick question. Man alert and oriented, attune to his blood sugars, novalog sliding scale and lantus HS and in the am. I work night shift. (Psych unit). Report vague and thru digging and...

  24. give lantus with food?

    cargalrn replied to cargalrn's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Thanks and I suffered great animosity for doing the right thing. It was an insulin drama. Pt is fine, Md wrote order that day to adm insulin as order, I was exonerated, but left a bad taste in my...

  25. Chest Pain on the psych unit

    cargalrn posted a topic in Psychiatric

    New to psych, with Med-surg, and telemetry experience. If a pt comes to you with c/o CP, VSS, no sob, etc, 1rst such complaint- I feel it is appropriate to ask for an order for an EKG and trops. My...