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Its possible there is a moratorium on new home care agencies, meaning the state is not allowing new agencies to be created.

$35 per visit, $80 for SOC typically. If you take salary then around $60000 but be prepared for 30 points per week. Each visit is a point, a SOC (admission) should count for two points. Mileage is a toss up, some agencies pay $5 more per visit with n...

fastaff.com was the agency looking for nurses for Harvey. I have not seen anything for Irma but I know they'll be needed.

How interesting that this conversation is here today. I don't necessarily have teachers sending me kids at the end of the day but they do question my clinical judgement which flips me out. I'm in a middle school and I allow kids to call for whatever ...

https://www.flshots.com/ but its not as simple as imputing information. I think you must have credentials.

There comes a time in everyone's life where enough is enough. I reached mine about two and a half months ago and I left direct patient care because I was tired of being force fed CMS regulatory kool aid anymore. I was shanghai-ed at 4am by the HR nu...

I'm a home health RN for another week or so (getting the he** out of healthcare). This readmit thing is getting bad. The reality for those of you in bedside nursing and PCP offices is that I can only do so much with a stethoscope and a blood pressu...

"Well, if you refuse to obtain health insurance, you SHOULD be penalized. How is it your constitutional right to be irresponsible? The greater good of the society overrides individual rights." I don't think so comrade.In the Bill of Rights, Article V...

"well, if you refuse to obtain health insurance, you should be penalized. how is it your constitutional right to be irresponsible? the greater good of the society overrides individual rights." i don't think so comrade. in the bill of rights, artic...

Throwing my $0.02 in..... Although called the Affordable Care Act it is anything but. Private insurance companies are licking their chops to increase premiums to cover the required preventative care. As of this month, my insurance premiums are more...

Um yeah, I wouldn't buy a new care in home health. I did somewhere around 38000 miles per year in the last two years in home health. I wouldn't take a new car financial hit (let someone else take the depreciation) of buying a new car knowing that I...

Its hard to determine what the hourly rate works out to because like the other posts said, we bring our paperwork home with us-sit in front of the tv and write out nursing notes. But if you are independent enough and want flexibility along with mone...

It wasn't the small batteries I was talking about, it was the dead car battery . Oh well issue resolved $140 later-ouch!

And another thing....you have to be prepared for those unexpected things like dead batteries....kinda like what just happened to me.

I made the transition to home health nearly a year ago and am so glad I did. Enchantment basically summed it all up. If you are organized, like to drive and can not let things bother you too much then you can do home health. Some have said salary ...

The bright side of night shift-the marathon of a 12 hour shift is a pleasant jog most of the time, instead of the 6 hour morning sprint then the 5 hour afternoon sprint broekn up only by the 30 minute break to scarf down lunch. I worked my night shi...

So I have a VA patient that I've been seeing since July 30, non healing sacral and hip wound. Admission weight was 94 lbs. After months of antibiotic theray which would make the patient sicker and nauseated, I have managed to get his weight to 107....

I have been doing home health now for 6 months and I love it. YEs, when I had 18 patients the case management felt overwhelming but I have a good support system, and my learning curve has been long as far as Medicare regulations go but the one thing...

Wow, what a day yesterday. I typically try to pull most of my visits to M, T, W, Th and have an easy day on Friday with just a few visits. But my husband and daughter both ended up with the flu on Thursday so I stayed closer to home and moved my vi...

I finally got on the road about 11 am, done by 6 pm. Depending on what I have to do, I'm usually done by 3 each day.

Ok, gotta jump in here..... Don't take it personally. You have to look at it from the side of the nurse on the floor. The job is a "hit the floor at 7 am and run like mad for at least the first 6 hours" and you really don't see a breather until abo...

Tasteful clothing, as long as the shorts are not too short and the tank top isn't 4 sizes too small, its ok. But its also cold in the classroom.

For starters, take a deep breath and relax....you're not going to spend the next 16 months reading everything. There's just not enough hours in the day. FOr success on the tests (besides dosage calc) use the CD's out of the text books and study the...

I discussed with my company owner the other day about going full time, but I think I'm going to stay PRN. I pull a full schedule but as PRN I can say no at any time.

Ok, I'm not a real nurse. Since I'm not a real nurse I won't be able to go out today and draw labs and change the dressings on the stage IV sacral wound, insert a Foley catheter and change another stage IV sacral wound, change the dressing on my dia...