Isabelle49

Isabelle49

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  1. Help with med calculation please

    Isabelle49 replied to AnnSmithga's topic in General Nursing

    You should not be giving injections without proper training. There are serious risks if you are not educated in this

  2. Pay per Visit

    Isabelle49 replied to ittybittybabynurse's topic in Home Health

    South Louisiana: $30 per visit, $50 Admit, $40 recert, $.42 per mile. Pathetic. My salary has decreased over the 9 years I have been in home

  3. Loved PACU, hated on-call

    Isabelle49 posted a topic in PACU

    I would love to return to PACU, but just can't deal with the on call stuff. One nurse in the recovery room with a patient trying to climb out of the stretcher, swinging a casted arm at the nurse is...

  4. nightmare HHA to work for (long vent)

    Isabelle49 replied to hopesgramcracker's topic in Home Health

    I would definitely make the call on Medicare fraud, you might get a percentage reward! Make it worth your

  5. Employer not paying, what to do?

    Isabelle49 replied to FAITHFULRN01's topic in Home Health

    If she made any visits there will be documentation and the patient/caregiver would have most likely signed same. That would prove visits. She may well also have a schedule with the patient names on...

  6. nightmare HHA to work for (long vent)

    Isabelle49 replied to hopesgramcracker's topic in Home Health

    I have one word for what your DON has you doing, but getting recerts, etc. signed by patients without appropriate clinician doing the assessment - FRAUD! By getting any of these signed without the...

  7. What Is Your Most Gross, Yucky, Disgusting Nursing Horror Story?

    Isabelle49 replied to yazisizit's topic in Nursing Humor

    Prior to becoming an RN, I was a phlebotomist in a hospital. I was drawing blood on a man with a tracy, needle in his arm and multiple tubes to fill when he hacks up a plug and it lands on my wrist...

  8. I don't want to call you, but you ARE the doctor!

    Isabelle49 replied to locolorenzo22's topic in General Nursing

    Way back when I worked PACU I thought surgeons should be completely responsible for the patient for a minimum of 24 hours after the

  9. Question about wasting narcotics

    Isabelle49 replied to EndoscopyLPN's topic in General Nursing

    I've just wasted with another RN usually, RT's are fewer and far between, just never thought of

  10. Employer not paying, what to do?

    Isabelle49 replied to FAITHFULRN01's topic in Home Health

    You might also file a complaint with the Labor Board in your

  11. Headed to BON tomorrow.....so stressed!!

    Isabelle49 replied to recovering nurse's topic in Nurses Recovery

    Great Job!

  12. How do you handle this?

    Isabelle49 replied to motownrn's topic in Geriatric, LTC

    At most of the hospitals in our area we have 'hospitalists'. These are MD's who work for and in the hospital and are charged with caring for the patients and they are called, not the primary or other...

  13. LPN starting pay $26.50!

    Isabelle49 replied to mustbegood's topic in LPN, LVN Corner

    RN in South Louisiana, new grad pay

  14. Does it make sense to go the LPN route or stick to BSN in the scenario

    Isabelle49 replied to Divalish918's topic in Diploma, ADN, BSN

    I have been an RN for 26 years. I wish I was an LPN, since I would have much more job flexibility. The pay may not be as high, but the jobs are

  15. After the fact I failed my NCLEX I got a call for a job interview

    Isabelle49 replied to pkt00's topic in General Nursing

    You must tell them that you failed NCLEX, by not doing so, you may be committing fraud. If that is found to be the case, you may never have a license to practice as an

  16. Do you think nursing would be more advanced as a profression if...

    Isabelle49 replied to Spikey9001's topic in General Nursing

    To understand nursing and how women in nursing might be viewed, you must go back to it's origins! My older sister, who is now deceased, was a nurse against her father's wishes. He told her that a...

  17. Our Lady of the Lake Hospital

    Isabelle49 replied to ewrn's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    Have you tried Baton Rouge General? Pretty good place to work. I would rather be there than at

  18. Spring 2011 charity grad-no job

    Isabelle49 replied to NolaGrad's topic in Louisiana Nursing

    My daughter who is also a Charity Grad (6years ago) is also having difficulty finding a job. Best of luck to

  19. heard it with my own ears

    Isabelle49 replied to MomRN0913's topic in General Nursing

    Tell that doc we sent him

  20. Bad Experience with Nurses at hospital, rethinking my major now.

    Isabelle49 replied to Lindsey-Student's topic in General Nursing

    I have witnessed more than one nurse treat a patient like trash, in the ER and on the floor. I find this kind of behavior to be very unsettling - almost as if the nurse enjoyed the torture and pain...

  21. Pinning up long hair

    Isabelle49 replied to annetter's topic in Patient Safety Issues

    Definitely a pony tail. Can't stand hair in my face and that's how it seems to want to grow and hang. Besides I get hot very

  22. first soc visit disaster

    Isabelle49 replied to therese0327's topic in Home Health

    It will get better and then sometimes it won't. I always expect an SOC to take at least 2 hours, that way there is no rushed feeling and hopefully nothing will be

  23. Anyone have experience working for a DME supplier?

    Isabelle49 replied to Amanda.RN's topic in General Nursing

    The nurses that I have know that worked for DME's have never turned back. They love

  24. Bad Experience with Nurses at hospital, rethinking my major now.

    Isabelle49 replied to Lindsey-Student's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think it's possible that the poster you responded to is a real nurse! Doesn't have a

  25. Bad Experience with Nurses at hospital, rethinking my major now.

    Isabelle49 replied to Lindsey-Student's topic in General Nursing

    OP, I would recommend a call to the administration department of the hospital you were seen at to file a