jordydan7295

jordydan7295 has 6 years experience.

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1. Never traveled, enlighten me!

   jordydan7295 posted a topic in Travel

   I have been thinking about travel nursing for awhile. I have talked with a consultant for over an hour asking questions. This position sounds very appealing with everything we talked about. I am probably 80% sure I'm going to do this. However, I do...

2. September 2013 Caption Contest: Win $100!

   jordydan7295 replied to Joe V's topic in Announcements

   "I'm so proud of myself! I got to do trach care today! " "Well good for you! Did you have any trouble connecting the trach back up? "

3. Very nervous.....any helps?

   jordydan7295 replied to jordydan7295's topic in Home Health

   Thanks, I will have to try that one.

4. Very nervous.....any helps?

   jordydan7295 posted a topic in Home Health

   I have been in training for about 4 weeks, this will be my 5th week and the lady I am riding with is very conversational with her patients. They talk about anything. I'm nervous because I start on my own next week and I am a shy, quiet person. I d...

5. Do you get paid per hour or per patient?

   jordydan7295 replied to jordydan7295's topic in Home Health

   Depending on the OASIS, depends on how many units you get. Start of cares, recerts, resumptions, and discharges are all 1 1/2 units, routine visits are one unit. I do minimum of 6 units a day. Sometimes 7 or 8 units.

6. Do you get paid per hour or per patient?

   jordydan7295 posted a topic in Home Health

   I'm just curious to other states and counties, how do you get paid? I get paid per unit. Routine is 1 unit, SOC, Recert, DC, and ROC are 1 1/2 units. I get paid $32 a unit. What's yours?

7. $$ for school..how'd you do it?

   jordydan7295 replied to GeauxNursing's topic in General Students

   Pell Grants and Mohela Loans!

8. What would you do?

   jordydan7295 posted a topic in General Nursing

   If you could start your nursing career over to your first place of practice, what would you do different? What do you wish you could have done then, from what you know now?

9. Need NANDA DX help!!!!

   jordydan7295 replied to jordydan7295's topic in General Nursing

   Thanks for your response, but I have to have a dx that is related to baby and it can't be risk of because I need interventions and evaluations.

10. Need NANDA DX help!!!!

    jordydan7295 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I have to come up with a NANDA dx for a newborn baby. The baby was healthy. Labor was induced at 37 weeks because mom had preclampsia. Baby has no trouble breathing, APGAR 8 then 9. No delivery problems. As far as I know baby is good. What dx d...

11. Vitamin K Administration

    jordydan7295 replied to Montessori Mommy's topic in Ob/Gyn

    Contemporary Maternal-Newborn Nursing Care by Ladwig, 6th edition, pg 642, states: "Procedure for vitamin K injection. Cleanse area thoroughly with alcohol swab and allow skin to dry. Bunch the tissue of the upper outer thigh (vastus lateralis m...

12. Nursing school while raising a family

    jordydan7295 replied to jewelshouse's topic in General Nursing

    I am a single mom of a 11 year old (she was six when I started shcool), and it has taken me three years of night and day classes, one class at a time (sometimes 2 at a time) to get through my pre-reqs. I had to start from scratch. I took a year off ...

13. Anybody tell me about palpatations?

    jordydan7295 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I kind of know what palpatations are. What I think it is, is when the heart skips a beat and the next beat is irregular and then it gets back in ryhthm. You have a strong flush sensation and a heavy beat feeling. I occasionally have them, maybe o...