Roland

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  1. New to home health nursing-need advice

    Roland replied to 1017sharonrn2003's topic in Home Health

    What is OASIS and how is it unique to home

  2. Is it even possible anymore to start a home nursing business?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in Home Health

    So do the seven (or nine I can't remember which number she said) patients have to be Medicaid/Medicare and not private pay? If they were private pay at least in theory (as if it were actually...

  3. CRNAs as Independent Contractors

    Roland replied to snoopy69's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    It looks like my schemes are foiled once more by the system! Okay, so here's the modified plan. I pay a large sum of money to a relatively small, corrupt African dictatorship to give me diplomatic...

  4. CRNAs as Independent Contractors

    Roland replied to snoopy69's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Just out of curiosity is having malpractice insurance a condition of licensure or employment for CRNA's in most states? If not why not keep most of your assets in an oversea's account (say the...

  5. Does home health care put your license in jeopardy if you are a new nurse?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    My wife works on the trauma unit/ MedSurge at a busy hospital and has for the last six months. She has been considering picking up extra hours doing home care (she only gets 24hours per week at the...

  6. How do you find out the "case law" for what will get your license suspended?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    I'm fairly sick of my employer telling me various things that could get my lowly CNA license suspended. For example they often say at my home health care agency that if our "shift relief" fails to...

  7. Safe Harbor when to evoke it?

    Roland replied to Jdon's topic in General Nursing

    Can someone explain the concept of Safe Harbor has it applies to nursing? I'm still a student and did not realize that there was a "safe harbor" provision recognized in law by various State Boards of...

  8. Would you treat someone with Marburg Virus?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    Below is an atrticle which discusses the current outbreak of The Marburg virus in Africa. It talks about how seven nurses, nine health care workers, and several doctors have all died from the disase....

  9. How come those pulse sensors at the YMCA can pick up your pulse almost everywhere?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    I remember in our health assessment class how they emphasized that their was no use in trying to get someones radial (or other) pulse if you were not feeling in the right locations. However, at the...

  10. How come those pulse sensors at the YMCA can pick up your pulse almost everywhere?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    The only way I could run a seven minute mile these days would be being chased, downhill, in a windstorm with a tailwind by rabid wolves. I just remember our nursing instructors stressing that you...

  11. How come those pulse sensors at the YMCA can pick up your pulse almost everywhere?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I think its right because the number generally match what I count manually, and what it gets from the "thumb" area. To me it is just absolutely outragious that a machine can get a pulse from my pinky...

  12. What ONE change would you make to increase nurse retention where you work?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    I've noticed many hospitals paying out bonuses up to five thousand for new hires/grads in an attempt to increase nurse retention. Let's say your hospital came to you and said "Nurse Smith" we empower...

  13. What ONE change would you make to increase nurse retention where you work?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    How would the hospital even begin to defend such a policy? If they ask me to float to a floor in which I had no experience I would immediately request that the architech of such a policy to explain...

  14. What ONE change would you make to increase nurse retention where you work?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    the idea of the beauty shop was that it could be subsidized with paying clients (patients, visitors, and people who live close to the hospital) which would all but pay for the salary and space of the...

  15. Roadblocks and Choices

    Roland replied to tonicareer's topic in Indiana Nursing

    The thing about Marion and other private schools is that they are so expensive that it really limits competition. However, that's good news if you can afford the

  16. Amenorrhea- HELP

    Roland replied to SJM730's topic in General Nursing

    Clearly you need to speak to your primary care physician. You may very well want to seek out a OB/Gyn who specializes in fertility issues. Having said that I think that it is within the variation of...

  17. University of Phoenix ON LINE Nursing program

    Roland replied to pghfoxfan's topic in Online Distance Learning

    Another thing about the Indiana Wesleyan University program is that it only costs around $12,500 for the whole two year program. I think that the University of Phoenix Online course costs about...

  18. What's the StraightDope on recapping needles?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    The "book" simply says not to recap. However, most instructors say don't recap, and then go on to demonstrate the "scoop" technique of recapping with the cap on the table. Many nurses say they feel...

  19. Why can't I get hired?

    Roland replied to catlady's topic in General Nursing

    I don't think you will have any problems once you are "on the scene" and talking directly with unit managers. However, here are some additional ideas: 1. Make sure your PALS/ACLS are up to date. If...

  20. What's the StraightDope on recapping needles?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    Okay, it seems that most say never recap. So what do you do when you don't have safety needles, and what do you do in the anesthesia surgery situations referenced above? In other words what is the...

  21. Why can't I get hired?

    Roland replied to catlady's topic in General Nursing

    Thoughts, advice possibilities: 1. I think that you will have better success talking directly to unit managers rather than the Human Resources Dept. Many nurses seem to have success cutting throught...

  22. What's the StraightDope on recapping needles?

    Roland replied to Roland's topic in General Nursing

    I would think that there might also be a contamination issue with scooping before injection. However, my main question concerned what the "book" answer to the quandry was. If you are going to "don...

  23. where to work after graduate

    Roland replied to nursinghelp's topic in General Nursing

    Here are some ideas that should require little or no additional "schooling" to pursue: 1. Home Health care nurse- Many home care agencies prefer experience, but in all honesty are so desperate to...

  24. National RN Salary Trends ADN or Diploma vs BSN

    Roland replied to Darcifly's topic in General Nursing

    I wonder if the trend for more hospitals to become "magnet" hospitals will have an impact on BSN verses ASN. Does anyone know if the percentage of nursing staff with BSN degrees is a factor in such...

  25. How can you call sending out a virus that killed MILLIONS a mistake?

    Roland posted a topic in General Nursing

    Meridian Biosciences sent out thousands of samples of a flu virus dating from the late 1950's that is estimated to have killed between one and four million people worldwide. They say that the virus...