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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 call the coroner. How many nurses wait until the ...

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 it.

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, and routine visits. For example would one go out to ...

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 facility?

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, but what other issues would you go out for? Would ...

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 days?

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. If I could finish the charting from home I would b...

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 Etc and the human resource manager is insisting I g...

I resigned today.

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 them

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 that's a 12-hour day and I know it's going to be m...

Thanks much for your response. So, it depends. LOL. I know it can bite you in the butt, but why is a hospital different from communtity nursing?

I enjoy psych nursing also. I work in a locked unit. When is ok to keep in contact with former patients? I have alot of questions on boundaries and ethics. Can anyone point me to a good source? Thank you for this article.

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 preventing pregnancy. But is it a health care issue t...

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 control. Without it they probably would never be ...

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 retire.

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 what ever. Get off your butt and do your job. All ...

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 together.

You have all helped me understand this greatly. Thank you.

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 harm to ask how they are doing or to give ongoing e...

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 knows much more, lol).

Premature post above, thanks again, ITG.

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

OK, thanks. Is it even unethical?

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 antecdotal word of mouth, find out he got one amp ...