nursesearl BSN, RN

nursesearl has 30 years experience as a BSN, RN and specializes in Home Care, Urgent Care, ER, Med Surg.

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1. How does one go about starting a comfort house?

   nursesearl posted a topic in Hospice, Palliative

   My husband is a hospice chaplain, and I am a home care RN. We have often thought about opening a comfort house, but have no idea how to go about doing it. There was a previous thread on this topic,...

2. Toradol IM Injection.

   nursesearl posted a topic in Emergency

   I have always given Toradol in a large muscle because I was told many years ago that it needed to go there. I have recently tried to look this up and can not find any info. We had a patient in our...

3. First in the nation....to survive JCAHO's unannounced Homecare Survey

   nursesearl replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Home Health

   Wow, sounds like you guys did a great job! Can I come work for you?

4. Starting new job on Monday - need advice.

   nursesearl replied to weetziebat's topic in Home Health

   Best thing to do is ride with a HH nurse BEFORE you accept a position. HH is not easy. That's the only advice I could give you

5. Can someone explain OASIS to me? Simply what does it mean?

   nursesearl replied to DutchgirlRN's topic in Home Health

   O-outcome, AS-assessment, I-information,

6. need help with BSN practicum

   nursesearl replied to marinka's topic in Home Health

   Marina, Do you guys in Brooklyn realize there is an "upstate" to NY? HaHa! We are about 7 hours from

7. need help with BSN practicum

   nursesearl replied to marinka's topic in Home Health

   Marina, Sorry, I don't know of anything in that area. Let me know if you need any help if you need to come to Allegany County.

8. need help with BSN practicum

   nursesearl replied to marinka's topic in Home Health

   I used to work for the Allegany County Department of Health. Poorest county in the state, very rural. They do mostly home health. Quite a bit different than Brooklyn! Their number is 585 268 9250. PM...

9. Help with new clinician orientation program

   nursesearl replied to jessica1972's topic in Home Health

   OASIS education is on the CMS web site. It's long and boring, but good OASIS

10. need help with BSN practicum

    nursesearl replied to marinka's topic in Home Health

    Where in NY do you live? I know of several agencies in the southern tier who you could precept

11. Neuro-vascular status

    nursesearl posted a topic in Emergency

    I work in an Urgent Care in a small rural hospital and the nurse manager insists that we chart the above term when anyone has an injury to an extremity and after casting. The exact phrase is...

12. could someone explain pay per visit and why agencies are doing this?

    nursesearl posted a topic in Home Health

    Our agency recently changed to "pay per visit." I want to understand why this seems to be the trend in home health agencies. Our agency said that it is a motivator, trying to increase our...

13. Paraplegic wants to do own in and out cath

    nursesearl replied to nursesearl's topic in Home Health

    Thanks so much for the info! Very helpful. I've printed the "gizmo" to give to the

14. Paraplegic wants to do own in and out cath

    nursesearl posted a topic in Home Health

    I did a SOC on a 20 year old female paraplegic who wants to do her own in and out cath. Her mom has been doing it. The patient says she has tried it before but is unable to do it. She's tried lying...

15. Know of any Home Health Nsg Magazine's?

    nursesearl replied to cherricka's topic in Home Health

    In our agency, we do OASIS training on the Web @ oasistraining.org. Alot of it is boring and propoganda-like, but I've been through it twice, after I had been doing OASIS since it began, and I learned...