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I just started a new position with an acute mental health facility. One of my responsibilities is to hold an educational group for one hour each day. What are some ways you have held groups and taught your patients?

I posted this on the dialysis nursing board, but there doesn't seem to be much activity there, and I really would like some opinions regarding this . . . First of all, is outpatient/chronic dialysis nursing considered a critical care specialty? If s...

Anyone familiar with facilities that utilize RNs for supervisory visits of home health aides ONLY and NOT to provide nursing skills/patient care? Can anyone give me information about this?

renerian, I'm not educated on the Medicaid system, since I've never had to deal with it in any of my roles as a nurse. I understand, however, there are many regulations, and that recently, at least here in New Jersey, changes occurred in January th...

Can you please clarify 'outside case managers' - do you mean other services that may be in the household such as skilled nursing, PT?

Hi Ann, Thanks for your response. I'll try to clarify my original post. I recently interviewed at a facility that provides home health aide services only - the RN's role in this facility is to first, assess the need for HHA services, and then, once...

Adults - the majority of the clients are chronic, and their illnesses run from A to Z. Currently on the unit are people diagnosed with major depressive disorder with psychosis and suicide ideation, bipolar (admitted in the manic phase and is now sta...

I interviewed for a position on a 16-bed unit for residents with dual-diagnosis this past week. It is for the 3 - 11 shift, and the opportunity for being hired looks promising, just as long as my background checks are cleared. I am new to psych nurs...

Thanks for the responses! Orientation began last week - hospital policy information, HIPAA guidelines, corporate compliance, safety issues, and a day-long class on "Handle with Care", which is the facility's method in crisis intervention (code call);...

Ditto. When I was a nursing student, I had an instructor that taught us then-nurses-to-be to start thinking of ourselves as role models of, and advocates for, a healthy lifestyle. That made a big impression on me, kind of like a shot right between t...

Would really like to hear from those who work the 3 - 11 with regard to how you plan your days prior to going to work - do you sleep until late morning? do you do your errands? do you get the kids off to school and are home for their lunch? And, afte...

Thanks to all of you for your responses. I worked 3 - 11 several years ago, and, as I stated earlier, I had a very difficult time adjusting - getting home after midnight, raiding the refrigerator till 2 AM, sleeping till 11 AM or 12 noon, and then ge...

Am very interested in knowing the amount of paperwork hospice nurses are confronted with in comparison to homecare nursing (Oasis forms, insurance papers and authorizations, documentation of necessity of services such as HHAs and medical equipment). ...

Thanks so much for your responses - they are very encouraging.

Is dialysis in an outpatient, chronic-dialysis facility considered a branch of critical care nursing? Has anyone ever heard of critical care nurses not being able to "hack it", so to speak, in dialysis because it is such an intricate specialty? Wou...

Thanks Minty! That was very helpful. Laurie

My, oh my - nursing is truly changing, isn't it? Much congratulations to you - what a relief, huh?

Hey Hoolahan --- I lasted 6 months in homecare and left because of the lousy, stinkin', god-awful paperwork -- I spent anywhere from 4 to 6 hours PER NIGHT and every night documenting, documenting, documenting. What an absolute nightmare. When I le...

I feel nursing consists of doing your job twice - first, you do it, and then second, you write practically every detail about it; I understand the necessity of it to promote continuity of care, but beyond that (insurance reasons, JCAHO, blah,blah, bl...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: The tears are rolling down my face!

I nursed on a 40-bed unit in an inner city hospital. It was a combined telemetry/CCU stepdown that also took all the post cardiac cath interventionals - patients came back to the floor with the femoral artery sheaths still in place and it was our re...