PeacePisceRN

PeacePisceRN specializes in ER, Hospice.

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1. DME question

   PeacePisceRN replied to AtlantaRN's topic in Hospice

   I have to agree with the last post...as a night on-call nurse...please have the equipment available for the patient if there is even the possibility of a need for oxygen. In my opinion, there is a possibility with every hospice patient. O2 is someth...

2. Medicare Probe

   PeacePisceRN replied to PeacePisceRN's topic in Hospice

   our probe is finally over. :w00t: thankfully, my job survived...so far. but, we have lost many nurses and many others are so unhappy. the office is a most unpleasant place to be. everyone's nerves have been so on edge for the past several mo...

3. Medicare Probe

   PeacePisceRN replied to PeacePisceRN's topic in Hospice

   Thank you for all your useful information. I think part of the problem is that any nurse on staff does admissions, and we are not all well versed in Medicare rules and guidelines. I do around 2-3 admissions per week, and I still don't understand al...

4. feeling drawn to hospice nursing..........

   PeacePisceRN replied to DeeLeeRN's topic in Hospice

   i thought dead bodies would be bad for me too. but i have now been working in hospice for two years, and really, they don't! at a death, i treat that patient (yes even gone still our patients) as i would want my family treated at their time of death....

5. Medicare Probe

   PeacePisceRN replied to PeacePisceRN's topic in Hospice

   I am in a metro area, and there are many other hospices in my area. The census has been hovering around 150 for about a month or so. There have already been significant layoffs in nursing staff (both RN and LPN nurses) as well as administrative sta...

6. help with failure to thrive work sheet

   PeacePisceRN replied to kerrioutlaw's topic in Hospice

   At my agency, we only use FTT for a patient who can be weighed currently and has documented weights for 6 & 12 months prior. Otherwise, we would use the DX of Debility.

7. Medicare Probe

   PeacePisceRN posted a topic in Hospice

   I work for what was formerly a large hospice (250-300 patients). Within the last 4-6 months, we have dropped over 100 of our patients due to a medicare probe...i.e. investigation of non-cancer diagnosis patients. We were told the LOS for most of ...

8. Pediatric Hospice Nursing

   PeacePisceRN replied to Fiesta Red's topic in Hospice

   My hospice does take on pediatric patients. And, by far, they are the hardest for me personally to cope with. I have never cried so much as when leaving the home of a dying child who was very close in age to my own daughter. I attended a weekend co...

9. Hospice On Call Compensation Structure

   PeacePisceRN replied to Katillac's topic in Hospice

   The hospice I work for has 4 night on call nurses. Two work each night and alternate making visits. We (I am one of the night on call nurses) are on call for 15.5 hours weekdays (4:30p-8:00a) or Friday nights 4:30p-7:00a, Saturday 7p-7a, and Sunday 7...