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I'm new ti HH, I'm an RN case manager and all I do is SOC, ROC, D/C and Recert...also HHA sup visits. I coordinate the care of all the diciplince also. My agency is trying to rebuild pt load after staff left do to take over. I'm told I could manager up to 50-60 pts. You may want to clarify what type of case management. LPN's do the revisits and report to me.

I just started HH, I'm and RN and am sole provider for my family. Does anyone out there use HH as a means to provide the majority of their families income? I am told I get $60 SOC $30 visit. My productivity base is on 28-30 points a week. I've only been doing it a little over 1 week and really love, have been on my own the last two days. can i count on getting 25-30 points a week?

Has anyone worked Psych at this facility and how was it. Also, where is a good area to live in Tucson, I have grown children so schools are not as important, safety is.

There was a code on our unit and two tiny female security guards responded, i explain what we were going to do (hold pt and given injections) and how and on what cue. When i said the cue the guards jump back from the pt and I was holding one arm as he started swing, meanwhile my partner was locked in the breakroom...thanks to a nurse on the other unit who came to my aid By the way I could care less if they were female or not...I just needed help!

By code are you talking medical or behavioral code?

I work on a geroPsych unit at a university hospital. We have 12 beds and usually average 6 or 7 patients. When the census falls below a certain number they will float our nurses to med-surg floors. many times there is 6 or more months between these floats and I don't feel comfortable taken on up to 6 patients on a med-surg floor with guaranteed admission for the floated nurse. Do any of you get floated and how do you feel about the safety of being floated at random?

I work on a geropsych unit and we use Abilify alot with Ativan for our agitated and aggressive patients. I don't think very much of it as a PRN IM in crisis management. Seems to work very slow if at all. Now I have had more success with Geodon although it also thats long to act. Haldol is the best but harder on Geri patients. I think it's absurd to get PRN orders any how for 0.5mg of ativan and Abilify. Give me a spit ball it works better.

I was 41 when I went to nursing school and I'm a male. I graduated in 2006 at 44 yoa and have received nothing but positive responses and welcoming arms in the field. I can't believe the options and fun I have. DO it and you will never look back and be sorry.

Columbus is a great town, my daughter goes to school there and I also am looking to relocate. Other than state hospitals which private hospitals have Psych floors?

I just started on my psych unit after a year of medsurg. I worked while in school in a large psych unit and knew that I wanted to do psych. I left over the objection of the pysch nurse managers telling me I didn't need Medsurg ex.. I'm glad i did it that way...but know many who didn't and are fine.